Hello everyone,
Are people interested in becoming involved in efforts
by SFLC, India in detecting violations of open-source
licenses, and in bringing software vendors into compliance?
There are largely two parts to this:
* The first is looking for violations in binary code, usually
in embedded devices. The most common form of
violation here is the unauthorised use of BusyBox.
As people here might not be familiar with the subject,
SFLC, India is willing to arrange a 2-3 day training session
with an expert from the US. While the session will be
open to all, the expense can be justified only if at
least a few people commit some time (say, a few
hours/week) to working with SFLC, India on this.
* The second part is compliance efforts. Often, these
are not antagonistic, i.e., software vendors are
willing to have their code audited for licensing violations
that they were not aware of. This should be of interest
to people working on machine learning, and similarity.
There can also be a commercial angle to this: Black
Duck software, for example, has (closed-source) commercial
tools that do this:
http://www.blackducksoftware.com/learn/open-source-compliance
Please note that in both cases above, the intent is to
bring violators into compliance, and *not* to spawn
litigation. If you are interested, please follow up here.
Especially for the first part, the training session will happen
only if there is sufficient committed interest.
Regards,
Gora
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