The article “Best Practices for Creating an Open Source Policy” gives a thorough guidline for the development of a FOSS Policy in businesses. The problem with the creation of an open source policy is explained as follows:

“Most companies using open source software know they need an open source policy. However, when it comes to creating a policy companies often don’t know where to start and spend months debating policy details and researching options. This guide is intended to help you write an open source software policy. But perhaps more important, it will also help you figure out who to include in the policy creation process so that your company is likely to agree upon and use the open source software policy once it’s been written.” For the entire article, please follow on the link. If you have made different experiences or if this article was helpful to you, please feel free to discuss this in the comments below.

Link: http://olex.openlogic.com/wazi/2009/create-open-source-policy/

We thank Dr. Sulayman Sowe for pointing this out on the FOSS Business models Trainings (FBT) mailing-list. To subscribe to the FBT mailing-list and engage in further interesting discussions concerning FOSS, please click here.