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FOSS issues in technology transfers from the University to the Industry
Author(s) :
Laurent, Philippe
Description :
FOSS has always been particularly welcome in Universities. Its spirit corresponds generally with the academic state of mind, and royalty-free technologies are particularly appreciated where money is usually lacking.
But at the opposite side of the spectrum, the universities¿ TTO¿s (Technology Transf...
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Repositori institucional de la UOC, O2
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Old English
Legal issues in promoting FOSS in R+D projects - Policy, Organisation and Management
Author(s) :
Bain, Malcolm
Description :
Creating and using FLOSS in R+D projects raises several legal issues, which need to be managed as soon as possible - preferably during the project planning stage. Challenges in the areas of project structure and policy, licenses and licensing, exploitation strategies, community management, and FLOSS...
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Repositori institucional de la UOC, O2
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Old English
Licensing Review in R+D Projects
Author(s) :
Alessandro, Orsi
Description :
FOSS packages are becoming ever more present in R&D projects carried out a variety of entities, including large corporations. I will focus on how legal risks associated with the use of FOSS licenses can be assessed and discuss measures directed to risk mitigation.
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Repositori institucional de la UOC, O2
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Old English
Warranties used as a mean to promote commercial FOSS
Author(s) :
Berrendonner, Romain
Description :
From a business standpoint, this paper describes the point of view on the question of warranties of a FOSS editor doing business in a risk-averse market segment. It is based on 15-years experience of AdaCore in the safety-critical embedded industry. However, it is not only the point of view of a pro...
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Repositori institucional de la UOC, O2
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Contracting with free software communities
Author(s) :
Schmitz, Patrice-Emmanuel
Description :
Industry and large Agencies needs ¿agile¿ programming resources, to reinforce their own development staff and take advantage of innovative approaches produced by ¿fresh minds¿ all over the world. At the same time they may be reluctant to engage in classical software development call for tenders and ...
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Repositori institucional de la UOC, O2
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Old English
GPL license compliance
Author(s) :
Hemel, Armijn
Description :
The enormous success of Linux in the consumer electronics industry has unfortunately led to a dramatic increase in license violations in devices. In this talk we will shortly look at the backgrounds of these violations, tooling to help uncover violations and what is needed to prevent future violatio...
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Repositori institucional de la UOC, O2
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Old English
Installation Information requirements in the GPLv3 and LGPLv3
Author(s) :
Pascal, Bénédicte
Description :
One of the major changes introduced in the GPLv3 and LGPLv3 is the clause preventing "tivoisation". Richard Stallman defines Tivoisation as "the practice of designing hardware so that a modified version cannot function properly". In this presentation we will go through the reasons of why the informa...
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Repositori institucional de la UOC, O2
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Old English
Free Open Source Software and Dual-Use: Loophole or Dissent?
Author(s) :
Foutel, Nathalie
Description :
The Free Open Source Software (FOSS) seem far from the military field but in some cases, some technologies normally used for civilian purposes may have military applications. These products and technologies are called dual-use. Can we manage to combine FOSS and dual-use products? On one hand, we hav...
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Repositori institucional de la UOC, O2
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Old English
Managing FOSS during development: preventive and curative approaches
Author(s) :
Rousseau, Guillaume
Description :
Today, most software development teams use free and open source software (FOSS) components, because it increases the speed and the quality of the development. Many open source components are the de facto standard of their category. However, FOSS has licensing restrictions, and corporate organization...
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Repositori institucional de la UOC, O2
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Sharing Open Source License and Copyright Data with SPDX
Author(s) :
Michlmayr, Martin
Description :
Organizations across the globe are creating and distributing products that include open source software. To ensure compliance with the open source licenses, each company needs to evaluate exactly what open source licenses and copyrights are included - resulting in duplicated effort and redundancy. T...
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Repositori institucional de la UOC, O2
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Old English