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Re:Ask HN: Does your company use a tool for outbound open source contr... on Monday December 14, 2015 @08:53PM (#10735449)

Thanks @theWold - that makes sense. Having a CLA in place is they way to make sure the rights are assigned to the open source projects for further use.

I wonder if the people who initially started the open source project had to go through some sort of approval process by management and whether that was facilitated by a tool? Also if the company somehow keeps track of the open source projects activities. Outbound basically meaning = from company to open source world.

Ask HN: Does your company use a tool for outbound open source contributions?

Posted by BenBoe on Monday December 14, 2015 @07:38PM
from the ask-hn dept.

There is a lot of blog posts about ‘outbound open source’ contributions in small or big companies. Example: http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2013/12/open-sourcing-projects-guide-getting-started/. Especially when starting a new open source project, many companies go through IP compliance checks and evaluate which license to apply (MIT vs Apache etc). Often times there is an approval process...

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