A Practical Management Framework for Commercial Software Development with Open Sources

Open source software (OSS) has been widely accepted as one of reuse methods to develop software applications in industry. OSS is well known for free software which can be used with freedoms on costs and copyrights. Nonetheless, when it comes to compliances of OSS licenses, different licenses have different duties to which users should conform. Furthermore, if the software using OSS is commercial, the conformance of OSS license compliances gets more critical. However, it is not easy for the commercial software developers to fully comply with compliances of OSSs due to the absence of a support system a management system allowing the developers to satisfy the compliances. In this paper, we present a practical management framework for commercial software development with OSS. In the framework, we define a development process including activities, instructions, and artifacts to use OSS. We also present practices on providing infrastructure and organizational support as well as defining education curriculum. And finally we discuss lessons, issues, and further directions.