Wednesday, August 15, 2007

Open source review board

Answer a questinaire with many of the important questions, have a review board to review them OS export, IPR lawyer, various specialists. HP is doing this, (a practice Perens instigated seven years ago).

Open BRR is another take on this issue. (http://www.openbrr.org/wiki/index.php/Home).

Drawing a bright line

Drawing a bright line is a skill. Essentially it´s creating interfaces so clear that it is impossible to inadvertently creating a derived work. (paraphrased from Bruce Perens)