2010 10 19 Open Source Research in FP7 Future Networks
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Transcript of 2010 10 19 Open Source Research in FP7 Future Networks
Open Source & Research
Panel SessionFuture Networks 6th FP7 Concertation Plenary Meeting.
19 October 2010
Introduction
• Why build on top of open source?– Is it
• To help researchers to share openly important technological advances & disseminate results of a project.
• A commercialisation avenue to exploit the project potential.
• A means to sell “know how” and “knowledge”.– Example commercial open source business models will
be presented during this session
Introduction
• Why build on top of open source?– Statement for future Standardisation
• A tool, a stepping stone in this process towards commercialisation
– Open source does NOT mean free.• Patents might still apply,• Even non-patented software can have a “Not for
commercial use” license.
Slide
Experience in 4WARD on legal aspects of Open Source
What’s the right way to achieve open source?– Licenses
• Problems with using different libraries and their licenses.• Lacking the knowledge of the licensed versions.
Copyright laws– OSS produced by students or contract researchers.– Have to consider difference from country to country on copyright laws
Discussions at the start of 4WARD– No GPL
There should be at least one person, if not a knowledge base to help researcher navigate this area– What issues in relation to the existing consortium agreement
Recommend– A project should have a dedicated chair on Open Source.
Observations Maintaining an Open Source project
• To build Critical mass– Metcalfe laws apply.
– Speed to market, especially if there is a new territory.
• Why would a company support resources for maintaining an open source project– A business model needs to be identified early in the process.
• Sourceforge– A graveyard for many a research project.
– To avoid, your project needs an evangelist, to build a developer and user community.
Beyond the lifetime of an FP7 project4WARD
NetInf– http://www.netinf.org/
OpenTinos– http://www.opentinos.org
Agenda
• Guest speakers:– Mr Richard Graham, Bird & Bird Law Firm
– Mr Roberto Galoppini (Commercial Open Source Software)
– Dr Marko Boger, CEO of Gentleware and Professor for Software Architecture at the University of Applied Science Constance (HTWG Konstanz)
– Mr Diogo Gomes, IT Aveiro
Miguel Ponce de Leon
Research Manager
TSSG, WIT
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