Created at Friday, 24 May 2013 11:16 Last Updated on Tuesday, 28 May 2013 17:38
Written by Yuwen Huang, Joseph Y. C. Chen, Lucien Lin
With the support of Deutsche Telekom AG, the devotion of its senior technical engineers Karsten Reincke and Greg Sharpe, and the help from numerous Open Source Software community members, the practical and models-provided manual for Open Source Softwares in commercial use, the Open Source License Compendium (OSLiC) was released. By setting the target audience as in-house software engineers, OSLiC is NOT just a theoretical book for paralegal. Instead, OSLiC introduces Open Source Software licensing in a systematic and catalogic way. In other words, the book illustrates different obligation processes by model explanations. As long as users have defined their chosen projects, it is easy to complete the step by step License Compliance process. Another unique character of OSLiC is that it was released by a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike German 3.0 License. By that, OSLiC can be translated and revised into different languages. Besides, OSLiC, in a very Open Source thinking, was released in GitHub and had been committed and maintained in the same mode as Open Source projects. Interested persons can trace the revisions and develop their own modified and interactive versions or frameworks by derivative development.