This week at LWN: FOSS compliance engineering in the embedded industry

Posted by Scott_Ruecker on Oct 10, 2009 9:33 PM EDT
LWN.net; By Shane Coughlan and Armijn Hemel
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This article examines a field called compliance engineering. Compliance engineering was pioneered by technical experts who wanted to address misuses of software, and was made famous by gpl-violations.org, FSF, and similar organizations correcting Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) license violations. The field has grown into a commercial segment with companies like Blackduck Software and consultancy firms like Loohuis Consulting offering formal services to third parties.

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