Open Source Governance Index

The research report - authored and published by VisionMobile, part funded by webinos under the EU FP7 ICT program - introduces a new way of measuring the openness of open source projects.

 

The Open Governance Index measures the true openness of eight open source projects - Android, Qt, Symbian, MeeGo, Mozilla, WebKit, Linux and Eclipse - and analyses how governance, and not licenses, tell the full story of a project's openness, across transparency, influence and control.

 

The full, 45-page report examines:

• Open source cultural roots and working upstream vs downstream
• Open source licenses vs governance models
• Analysis and classification of governance models
• In-depth reviews of Android, Qt, Symbian, MeeGo, Mozilla, WebKit, Linux and Eclipse
• Best practices in creating an open source project

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