Case Study 2: Finos

Objective

This educational report discusses the invitation to participate in open source programs by governments and public project maintainers. The focus is on protecting volunteer contributions in various jurisdictions, implementing diversity best practices, following SBOM (Software Bill of Materials) best practices, ensuring security infrastructure best practices for open source software, clarifying intellectual property rights, and establishing data protection and processing best practices for open source software. Additionally, it emphasizes the importance of project lifecycle governance.

To extrapolate the mission of documenting best practices for open source software, we have considered making assessments on observations and findings on open source softwares for heavily regulated banking.

Case Study: https://www.finos.org/governance Finos.Org

Legal Bodies Involved:
Fintech Open Source Foundation (FINOS)(Directed Fund), Linux Foundation, USA,
Linux Foundation Europe, Belgium

Relevant Public Links:

https://www.finos.org/hubfs/FINOS Charter.pdf

https://github.com/finos/community/blob/main/website/static/governance-docs/IP-Policy.pdf

https://www.finos.org/faq