1. WGISS - 40 30/09/2015 OPENSOURCE– CNES APPROACH R. Moreno

2. WGISS - 40 CONTEXT 2 Question 1  How do you use open-source software in daily practice? Answer  Case 1 : CNES software made opensource  Case 2 : integration of plug-in or libraries which are used for the developement of other SW  Done by contractors (CNES do not develop SW)

3. WGISS - 40 CONTEXT 3 Question 2  What repository do you use? What license ? Answer  Repository : no rules  A web site « Free software » exists  But some opensources are available directly on forge like Github  License : no rules – execpt avoiding contaminating license  But in some cases, we use the license GPLV3  Example SITOOLS2 : in laboratories ; enhancements a reversed to the other laboratories

4. WGISS - 40 CONTEXT 4 Question 3  How does management at your agency encourage open source business practices? Answer  There is no general encouragement  Pragmatic decision  Reduce the development cost, but not necessary the explitation cost (migration)  CNES sotfware are not by default opensource  Only when justified  And if cannot be sold

5. WGISS - 40 CONTEXT 5 Question 4  What is your flagship open sourced application? What problems did you encounter along the way? For NASA, GIBS is probably the most popular one; they are trying to get ECHO and CMR into open source. Answer  Flagship : OTB Orfeo TolBox  https://orfeo-toolbox.org https://orfeo-toolbox.org  Opensource processing of remote sensing images  License Cecill v2  SITOOLS2 (my department)  https://github.com/SITools2 https://github.com/SITools2  Self manageable data access layer deployed on exisitng scientific laboratories databases  License GPL V3

6. WGISS - 40 CONTEXT 6 Question 5  Does your agency have intellectual property issues involving copyrights or code provenance? Ignoring legal issues with software is costly. Answer  A priori  An analysis is done on the software to be integrated, and we check the compatibility of the license with our developments  A posteriori  We have used Blackduck for all the CNES opensource software

7. WGISS - 40 CONTEXT 7 Question 6  Does your agency have legal controls and processes in place to deal with open source software? Answer  There is a commission dedicated to brevet and software that meets every month