Links on Open Sourcing?
Published May 5th, 2008 in License, Open Source, Open SourcingI’m working on a paper on Open Sourcing and - though I have quite some knowledge on the topic - cannot find a lot of relevant papers, posts or articles. Most hits are about open source not open sourcing and “open sourcing” doesn’t find relevant things. Any ideas? Any papers? Any links? Thanks :-)
Which part of the “open sourcing” aspect are you going to focus on?
How to make a successful open source project?
The legal implications of an open source license?
How do I apply an open source license to my code?
I’d suggest reading “Open Sources”. Furthermore, the FSF (and probably other licenses too) have a licensing FAQ answering many questions.
Asgeir
Thanks for your comment.
I meant the process of Open Sourcing applications which have been closed source until now. I know about code auditing, laws, community building, running open source projects and open source licenses (at least GPL, AGPL, LGPL, Apache, BSD, MIT, CC). Those are the obvious things.
What I would like to learn more is about the process of open sourcing. Which steps when? What steps? Experiences? etc.
Right,
In that case you might want to look at the Apache Software Foundation’s incubation process. The Eclipse Software Foundation has a similar process. They are both designed to handle many of the legal and practical issues of open sourcing an existing code base.
Asgeir
Ah good idea, thanks, I’ll take a look.
Well, maybe Sun and Java is a good example then. You might want to talk to Dalibor Topic. He has been an interesting resource in that regard. (Just in case you don’t know Dalibor: OSS advocate, kaffee maintainer, GNU Classpath participant, member OpenJDK interim governing board and just recently Java F/OSS Ambassador at Sun, http://robilad.livejournal.com/30463.html)
@french_c: Thanks, I’ll do that, good idea.