Open source software (OSS) means the freedom to use, study, modify, and distribute code - and this freedom is becoming more important for organizations, companies, and society. We are looking for a range of talks about open source: contributing to or leading a project, tools and best practices for managing OSS in organizations, open source business models, OSS governance, and stories and the value, the risks, and the rewards of doing open source.
The Open Source Way
Every participant in the FOSS ecosystem relies on understanding how projects are licensed in order to meet their compliance obligations. Developers who build on FOSS must ensure they are confident about the licenses of the projects they've built on just as much as FOSS projects releasing their own software must ensure they feel confident the code they're releasing is compliant. Lack of clarity or confidence in FOSS projects' licensing builds on itself and makes it difficult for everyone to participate.
The Open Source Way
When running Eclipse Steady internally at SAP, serving thousands of distinct teams and conducting 250k+ scans per month, we spent a substantial amount of time mining source code repositories and curating a knowledge base of so called fix-commits (which are the commits that fix known vulnerabilities). Such information is the fuel of Eclipse Steady and it needs to be continuously harvested.
The Open Source Way
The rise of advanced driver assistance systems and partially automated driving functions leads to the need of virtual simulation to assess these systems and their effects. This especially refers, but is not limited, to safety effects in traffic. There are various methods and tools for prospective evaluation of safety systems with respect to traffic safety. Implementing the methodology by creating and maintaining the openPASS platform will support reliability and transparency of results obtained by simulation.
The Open Source Way
Using open source is a no-brainer today, as basically every software product makes use of existing open source software. Unfortunately, managing the usage of open source software is not as easy as it sounds in the first place. Copyright law, open source licenses and their obligations, and simply the identification of which software is used transitively and which licenses and copyrights apply to this software are real obstacles and companies still struggle to set up a proper infrastructure to deal with these.
The Open Source Way
Work in the field of highly automated driving and autonomous mobility introduces a new complexity into the development of embedded systems in vehicles and requires many multi-faceted processes incorporating a variety of software tools. It is necessary to combine existing technologies with new technologies or new tools.
The Open Source Way
