Practical GPL Compliance A Guide for Startups, Small Businesses and Engineers |
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| Author:
| Hemel, Armijn
Coughlan, Shane |
| Reviewed by:
| Hemel, Armijn
Stewart, Kate
Kroah-Hartman, Greg
Dolan, Michael |
| Commentaries by:
| Kroah-Hartman, Greg
Jaeger, Till
Moglen, Eben
Piana, Carlo |
| ISBN: | 978-0-9989078-0-2 |
| Publication Date: | Apr 2017 |
| Publisher: | Linux Foundation, The
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| Book Format: | Ebook |
| List Price: | USD $0.00 |
Book Description:
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'Practical GPL Compliance' is a compliance guide for startups, small businesses and engineers, particularly focused on complying with the versions of the GNU General Public License (GPL). It is designed for engineers shipping products with GPL licensed software included (e.g. consumer electronics, drones, IoT devices). The goal is to provide practical information to quickly address common issues. It is intended to be useful for solving real world challenges rather than providing...
More Description'Practical GPL Compliance' is a compliance guide for startups, small businesses and engineers, particularly focused on complying with the versions of the GNU General Public License (GPL). It is designed for engineers shipping products with GPL licensed software included (e.g. consumer electronics, drones, IoT devices). The goal is to provide practical information to quickly address common issues. It is intended to be useful for solving real world challenges rather than providing perfection in an imperfect world. It is intended to serve as the basis for empowering a compliance engineer or compliance team to get their job done as efficiently as possible. Hopefully the practices laid out in this guide will also assist you in complying with other open source license terms as well.This book begins by introducing the tools used for practice GPL compliance, then expands on the goals of our approach, and follows with an explanation of how to accomplish those goals. It continues with a "checklist" of pitfalls frequently encountered by compliance engineers and a list of steps that can be applied in common situations when releasing a product or product family. It ends with some handy flowcharts to visualize key approaches or best practices.