The Open Source Program Office (OSPO) is responsible for the overall management and direction of an organization's open source program. This includes managing the open source software inventory, identifying and managing legal and compliance risks, and ensuring that open source software is used in compliance with company policies and procedures.
There are several key points that a large enterprise should consider to ensure compliance with open-source license obligations:
This course is intended for all individuals that participate in open source projects at any level - contributors, maintainers, Steering Committee members and Governing Board members.
This course is designed primarily for product managers who want to learn how to effectively incorporate ethics-by-design techniques into their workflows, and developers wanting to apply ethics through critical thinking techniques and proven mental frameworks.
This course is intended for software developers, project managers, legal associates, and executive decision makers who already know the basics of what open source software is and how copyrights work, and are ready to take the next step towards building a formal compliance program for their organization.
This course is intended for developers, project managers and executive decision makers who already know the basics of what open source software is and how copyrights work and are ready to take the next step towards building a formal compliance program for their organization.
An OSPO maturity model featuring case studies from Bloomberg, Comcast, and Porsche.
Open Source Business Models
This article explains the concept of the Contributor License Agreement (CLA) and Developer Certificate of Origin (DCO) and the practical implications of these for organisations consuming and contributing to open source.
An SBOM, or Software Bill of Materials, is a list of all the components, libraries, and dependencies used in a software project, along with their associated version numbers and license information. There are two different SBOM formats:
This article provides some basic framing around the purpose of licenses within open source: