Ceertified OSS developers

Daniel Pocock daniel at pocock.pro
Tue Jun 7 11:24:52 UTC 2016


On 07/06/16 12:47, Vitaly Repin wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I came with a little bit strange question here.  Has anybody ever
> heard about any organizations which provide formal trainings /
> certification in open source / free software expertise?
>
> I do not mean the technical expertise in specific open source
> software. But rather the OSS contributions / licensing issues - e.g.,
> to know what is the difference between copyright and copyleft, what is
> the difference between AGPL, GPL and LGPL, why it is a bad practice to
> copy the code from open source project into closed-sourced project
> without looking to the licenses etc.
>
If somebody is accredited as a developer with a large project like
Debian that is usually a sign that they have a strong grasp of these
concepts.

Regards,

Daniel

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