The Enterprise Open Source Blog

Open Source Scanning: A Technical Perspective on Which Files to Scan

Posted by Dave McLoughlin on January 23rd, 2012 in Scanning & Provisioning

When preparing to scan your application development projects for open source software, one simple approach is to point your scanner at the root directory of your development system. But that is probably not the most efficient approach, and results may include many open source components that are not actually part of your application. Or worse, the scanner may miss components that are not present in the build environment. There are many reasons to be careful and selective about what you scan and why. Here’s a short list of considerations when preparing to scan and determine the open source used in your application.

4 Steps to Understanding an Open Source Audit

Posted by Dave McLoughlin on December 21st, 2011 in Legal & Compliance, Scanning & Provisioning

Often times, at the completion of an open source software (OSS) audit, customers will ask us “Now that I know what OSS and licenses I have, what do I do?” or “Do I have any issues?” What they are really wondering about is license compliance, are they in violation of any of the OSS licenses, or if they are not in compliance, what are the implications?

If you are familiar with common OSS licenses, you will know that quite often people are most concerned about the dreaded “copyleft” licenses, where non-compliance can potentially mean they have to provide their source code, and more importantly, their intellectual property to their customers.

So how do you tell if there are issues or if there is anything you have to do to comply with the OSS license that is in the OSS used in your application development?

Here is a simple guide to help you to begin to understand compliance issues and how to come into compliance for newly discovered OSS.

Synching Apache and JBoss Timezones

Posted by Dave McLoughlin on June 26th, 2009 in Support

We've had a couple customers recently ask us how to synch the timezones for Apache web server and JBoss Application Server.   The question goes something like this:   I have servers living in Arizona. Our Linux team has set the native time to AZ. I need to set the apache and JBoss to CT for [...]

Top 5 Reasons to Join the OXC

Posted by Dave McLoughlin on September 11th, 2008 in Open Source Trends

The OpenLogic Expert Community (OXC) is a growing community of open source committers, contributors and experts who help us in supporting over 400 open source projects.  The community is open to people who have the passion, time, and knowledge to help solve technical issues on any of the open source products in our library.  Are [...]

Don’t Judge an Open Source Project by its Cover

Posted by Dave McLoughlin on July 31st, 2008 in Open Source Trends

At OpenLogic we review open source software prior to adding it to our certified library.  Projects get added to our queue in a number of ways, but more often than not, customers contact us and let us know they are using a project and ask us if we will review, certify and add the project [...]