Bryan Klein

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From what I understand we can inherit and honor externally imposed copyright license, but we cannot…[Read more]

I agree, we are producing OSS at NIST and don’t follow everything that this quite comprehensive document presents. But it has helped guide some of our decisions and tuned are development processes. For higher level philosophical information, I would also recommend something like the Cathedral and the Bazaar to people new to this OSS…[Read more]

Your post made me think of this book…
http://producingoss.com/

-Bryan Klein (NIST)