Concrete Open Source tools and projects to help you achieve compliance with your Open Source components.

Clearly Defined: Crowdsourcing open source projects security and licensing data : Philippe Ombredanne, NextB


Joinup Licensing Assistant : Patrice-Emmanuel Schmitz, Joinup Licensing Assistant – www.joinup.eu – The European Commission, Brussels

Efforts done for Free/Open licences understanding and classification are precious to support users facing the various open licences for reuse and distribution of software or data (sometimes both). OSI (regarding licences compliant with the OSS principles) and FSF (regarding licenses compliant with the free software freedoms) delivered some information related to the use (OSI) or the compatibility with the GPL (FSF). In the framework of the Linux foundation, the SPDX project produced a standard list of licence names and identifiers, providing access to 348 licence texts. However, there could be a need for a more didactic tool, based on analysing the content of these licences. This is the discussion (more than a final project) that JOINUP, the European Commission site for sharing and reusing interoperable solutions, would like to introduce at EOLE 2018. Comments will be considered for finalising the project, that must be complementary to SPDX and consider various existing approaches like the analysis grids developed by various authors in their books or studies.


License Compatibility tool : Marco Ciurcina, Studiolegale.it

An increasing number of services available on the web provide tools (forms, wizards, etc.) that embed legal knowledge and make easier to use such legal knowledge. But it's difficult to look inside these tools and check the quality of the legal knowledge embedded in them. Lawyers working close to free software communities are getting used to hosting
services for version control and to use them for drafting documents. The presentation explains a free licences compatibility tool available under AGPLv3 license.
This tools is designed using a software tool available under AGPLv3 license that allows to make knowledge artifacts including Q&A, filters and outputs. The tool can be used on the web as a wizard but is also saved on a hosting
service for version control. This allows to check the logic of the tool and allows to collaborate in the design of the tool.

How the evolution of law helps Governments leveraging Open Source for their digital transformation


From Open Data to Open Source (French Government) : Laurent Joubert, DINSIC

Goals of the French open-source contribution policy for all civil servants from central administrations


Public Administration and free software : Laura Garbati, CSI-Piemonte

In the light of the new legislation of the digital administration code, and of the Agid guidelines in publication, an example of how these principles can be declined in a public administration: strategies, organization, contractual clauses and a common license strategy. A proposal for a vademecum to manage the development of open solutions, establish a center of internal expertise and make a compatibility check, in order to publish not only an application but a truly reusable project. Finally, take advantage of the community as a public value for reuse 2.0.

A hands-on session to use Fossology (licence & IP evidence detection). This session will be divided into 2 workshops of 1 hour each.

Open Source Compliance Tools – Fossology.org : Camille Moulin, Inno³

A hands-on session to use Fossology (licence & IP evidence detection). This session will be divided into 2 workshops of 1 hour each.

Open Source Compliance Tools – Fossology.org : Camille Moulin, Inno³