7.9.2017 by [email protected]
In previous post I gave number of reasons why open source is a terrific thing specially for public organisations. I also promised to tell some practical considerations about releasing our software as an open source. Here you are. My experience is based on my employer’s Finnish Meteorological Institute’s, releases where I was active. I’m mainly talking about releasing old, previously propriety, software as an open source.
First the boring part: licences. I’m not a lawyer and I may be inaccurate or even wrong in some cases. But specially when handling open source software, every engineer need to think licenses at least a bit.