HP Open Source Initiatives: FOSSology and FOSSBazaar
FOSSBazaar is a work group of the Linux Foundation, maintaining a community platform for open source experts and enterprises aiming at open source education. It’s focus is on governance best practices, automation tools, and open communication to accelerate adoption of free and open source software in the enterprise. Specifically, FOSSBazaar aims to:
- Expand upon the open source value proposition for a richer, safer, less expensive, and better overall IT experience.
- Focus on timely issues such as license management and support as open source software matures and becomes adopted more widely in IT environments.
FOSSology are tools around what the name says “the study of free and open source software”. Conceptually, I understand you load any FOSS into the application/repository, have it analyzed and the results filled into the FOSSology database and then you get some web output on governance relevant findings.
Both FOSSBazaar and FOSSology are spearheaded by HP and include several industry leaders in open source service providers and projects.
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