Heiko W. Rupp

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Stuttgart, Germany

Heiko is a long time open source committer. He currently works for Red Hat on the topic of monitoring and management of server and softwares systems. Heiko has received a master in Computer Science from University of Karlsruhe and has written two books on JBoss AS and Enterprise Java Beans.

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pilhuhn
How to manage casual contributors to open source projects

Hey,
great article. And one can't emphasise enough that non-code contributions matter a lot. But also for casual code contributors it is a great reward if they are explicitly mentioned in release notes.

pilhuhn
SPDX clears confusion around software licenses

Thanks for the article.

I think it would have been cool if the article would have shown examples on how to apply SPDX to source code in some prominent languages and/or project styles if appropriate.

Are there tools to see if a project really confirms to some SPDX license? Or to ensure that each file has a SPDX header?

How does SPDX work with the classical license headers that e.g. say "this is released under license XYZ and you may do bla blah" - is that still needed with SPDX?

Thanks
Heiko