“The Linux Foundation strives to provide relevant, useful
guidance to organizations setting up their free and open source
software (FOSS) compliance programs. Last month, we released a
white paper titled “A Five Step Compliance Process for FOSS
Identification and Review.”Now, we are releasing a freely available new white paper ‘FOSS
Compliance Practices for Supplied Software.’ It examines compliance
practices needed when software supplied by a third party vendor is
brought into the code baseline of a product to be distributed
externally. The white paper discusses requirements a company should
impose upon its suppliers to disclose FOSS in their deliverables
and to provide what’s needed to achieve compliance. The paper also
discusses steps a company can take to review and validate the FOSS
disclosures made by its suppliers. In addition to those topics, the
white paper addresses measures a company can undertake to assess
its suppliers’ compliance capabilities.
Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.
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