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Publication of Second Issue - International Free and Open Source Software Law Review

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Written by Martin von Willebrand   
Thursday, 28 January 2010 12:53

The editorial committee of IFOSSLR has published their second issue.

 

One of the articles touches very closely open source compliance: Richard Kemp wrote Towards Free/Libre Open Source Software (“FLOSS”) Governance in the Organisation. I can recommend this article to everyone considering how to implement open source governance at their organisation: it explains different views to governance and how these can be used as building blocks for a corporate open source governance strategy. The article gives concrete examples of these documents.

 

The whole issue is available at: http://www.ifosslr.org/ifosslr/issue/view/2.
Last Updated on Friday, 19 February 2010 11:29
 

Students reviewed open source licenses - with a patent focus

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Written by Martin von Willebrand   
Thursday, 20 August 2009 10:41

Co-operation of Universities and a Law Firm

A collection of analyses of open source licenses was made as a part of final studies of law students in Helsinki University, Swedish School of Economics in Helsinki, University of Turku and IPR University Center. The analyses review licenses from the perspective of business use with a focus on patent terms.

The project was carried out as a group work lead by a law firm expert. The collections of analyses (in Finnish only) can be freely downloaded from os.hhpartners.fi. The law firm partner in the project was HH Partners, Attorneys-at-law Ltd.
Last Updated on Tuesday, 25 August 2009 14:07
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Avoin lähdekoodi ohjelmistotuotteissa

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Written by Martin von Willebrand   
Wednesday, 13 May 2009 09:46
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Last Updated on Wednesday, 13 May 2009 10:01
 

Open Source in Business Use FAQ

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Written by Martin von Willebrand ja Mikko-Pekka Partanen   
Friday, 06 February 2009 10:01

Frequently Asked Questions - Open Source Software in Business Use:

(See the glossary, if open source is a new to you.)
Last Updated on Wednesday, 16 March 2011 16:37
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Finnish Government Wishes to Promote Use of Open Source

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Written by Mikko-Pekka Partanen   
Friday, 13 March 2009 17:13

Open source software is gaining popularity in companies but also in the public sector. According to recent comment about information society Finnish government is willing to promote the use of open source software in organizations of public administration.

Definition of policy of the government is a good continuum for JHS-recommendation published in last month, which guides to the use of open standards and interfaces and acquiring software with open source license, comments

Matti Saastamoinen from COSS. See press release.

 

Finland is not alone with the matter because similar news have been heard from another countries. For example in England the government has notified that in the future open source software is evaluated on the same basis than closed software on public acquisitions.
Last Updated on Tuesday, 17 March 2009 15:18
 
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