In “Establishing InnerSource at SAP”, I explained how InnerSource works, its benefits and what we do at SAP to establish InnerSource as working model. In the meantime, our activities and approaches evolved. In this blog post I describe the different ...
In the first part of my two-part series about Open Source Program Offices (OSPO), I explained the general concept of an OSPO as an organizational unit to manage open source software in the enterprise in a holistic manner. This second part focuses on ...
Open Source is an important working model in the software development industry today. It is very inefficient, if not impossible, to develop software without it. There are quite some very successful Open Source projects and many technology areas are e...
From time to time, we (the Open Source Program Office of SAP) are asked by customers how we organized the management of open source software at SAP. Often the reason is that the requesting company is not a traditional IT company, but increasingly nee...
OK, I understand. In this case, I assume that you work on the Python library on behalf of your employer. Your employer might have an own policy for open sourcing such code. I recommend that you check with the responsible team of your employer whether...
Hi Jay,the reason why each open sourcing request must go through a (lean) approval process is exactly to check whether it is OK to open source the code or not. Thus, I ask you to start the process for your request. Otherwise you are not allowed to op...
Hi Jay,basically, that should be possible. As SAP's open source policy requires, you must get an approval for releasing your library under an open source license. Please have a look at this documentation.Prerequisite is that the B1 API'S that your li...
