March 2025
Intermediate to advanced
470 pages
12h 45m
English
It’s tempting to look at the policies listed here, draft your own versions of them, and then dust your hands off and walk away thinking all your inbound FOSS policy problems are now sorted. The policies mentioned in this chapter are the most common ones for inbound FOSS, but they’re far from the only ones possible. Depending upon the requirements of your company, other policies may be needed. Some examples include the following:
Never maintain internal forks of FOSS projects.
Always contribute code fixes to the upstream project (see Chapter 17, Master Contribution Fundamentals).
When selecting FOSS components, first check the approve list for components already used by the company.
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