| NOTAS: | "This document represents Deliverable D3.01– Methodology to avoid licence compatibility problems at the European Commission for the Open Source Software Strategy supporting the study carried out by Deloitte for DIGIT, unit B3. This study is grounded in the context of the increasing adoption of open source software in both public and private organisations over the past decades. The study aims at helping the European Commission benchmark its current practices and measure the implementation progress of its possible initiatives in that same direction. The purpose of this document is to examine the current practices used to manage free and open source software licence incompatibilities in the private sector within the European Union (EU). As software licence agreements represent legally binding contracts between the owner of the proprietary software and the end-user, open source licence compatibility refers to the risks associated with combining differently-licensed open source software into a single project. Licence incompatibility exists when a program is derivative of components licensed under two different licences whose obligations cannot simultaneously be met. Moreover, the document aims at providing an inventory of potential and actual licence compatibility issues in the European Commission, while identifying practical methodologies and tools to avoid incompatibilities between open source licences." |
