Linux Foundation Launches Open Compliance Program (Linux.com) [LWN.net]

Over at Linux.com, Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier reports on the newly formed Open Compliance Program. "More than 30 companies have joined with The Linux Foundation today to launch the Open Compliance Program (OCP), an initiative to help companies ensure that their products comply with the requirements of FOSS licenses. The program comprises a set of open source tools to enable compliance efforts, a self-assessment checklist, training and consulting services, and a directory of compliance officers at participating companies." Also of note is GPL enforcer Bradley M. Kuhn's reaction entitled "May They Make Me Superfluous": "If this Linux Foundation (LF) program is successful, I may get something I've wished for since the first enforcement I ever worked on back in late 1998: I'd like to never do GPL enforcement again. I admit I talk a lot about GPL enforcement. It's indeed been a major center of my work for twelve years, but I can't say I've ever really liked doing it."

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I hope they succeed

Posted Aug 10, 2010 16:43 UTC (Tue) by bkuhn (subscriber, #58642) [Link] (1 responses)

As someone who has spent twelve years working on GPL compliance, I sincerely hope LF succeeds in making it so I never have to do GPL enforcement again. It's a tough job, though. I wrote more about this in a blog post on the subject.

I hope they succeed

Posted Aug 10, 2010 18:37 UTC (Tue) by skvidal (guest, #3094) [Link]

I love this. Your blog post is excellent. I hope you can go on to work on other and more interesting things in the future and I hope the linux foundation has success in this.

Related to Shane Coughlan's and Armijn Hemel tools?

Posted Aug 10, 2010 19:01 UTC (Tue) by coriordan (guest, #7544) [Link] (1 responses)

The announcement mentions some compliance tools, released as free software:

http://www.linuxfoundation.org/programs/legal/compliance/...

Anyone know if this work is related to what was done a few months ago by Armijn Hemel and Shane Coughlan:

http://www.binaryanalysis.org/en/home

Related to Shane Coughlan's and Armijn Hemel tools?

Posted Aug 11, 2010 20:54 UTC (Wed) by armijn (subscriber, #3653) [Link]

The binary analysis tool that we released is on the Linux Foundation Open Compliance Program website.