[libreplanet-discuss] Liberating software as corporate social responsibility

[Manuel Palomo Duarte]

Hello everybody.

This is my first post to this list, sorry if my English is not very good.

I just wanted to share with you a scientific paper that makes a study on how the contributions to free software projects from companies can be considered as part of their corporate social responsibility.

We all know that there can be many reasons for a company to liberate software they have programmed (see "The Magic Cauldron" for example). But this proposed perspective could be interesting to foster these liberation plans. Of course accurately measuring the actual value of the software programmed remains an open issue ...

The paper is named "Sustainability and social responsibility reporting in open source software". It is available as Open Access in the journal site. I hope you enjoy it.

https://www.thecommonsjournal.org/index.php/ijc/article/view/503

Kind regards

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Prof. Manuel Palomo Duarte, PhD

Software Process Improvement and Formal Methods group (SPI&FM).

Department of Computer Science

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