eIDAS (for “electronic IDentification, Authentication and trust Services”) is a set of European Union regulations. eIDAS Regulations There are different eIDAS regulations: eIDAS1 is regulated in EU Regulation 910/2014, that derogated EU Directive 1999 It is completely applied since 1…
Este artículo resume los servicios o portales electrónicos comunes de la Administración General del Estado o administración estatal pública de España. La administración electrónica podría llamarse administración automática o automatizada, ya que nos referimos no solo a las comunicaciones con…
Enterprise architecture (EA) is a conceptual blueprint that defines the structure and operation of organizations. Enterprise information security architecture (EISA) is a subset of enterprise architecture that focus on information security. You can read more about IS architecture frameworks on…
Permissive licenses are also known as BSD-style or Apache-style licenses. They contain minimal requirements about how the software can be modified or redistributed, clauses that are not existent in public domain or public domain equivalent licenses.. Permissive licenses are more…
Internet Protocol Security (IPSec) is a standard of IP security extensions that comprises a collection of protocols and that is used as an add-on for IPv4 and integrated into IPv6. Each IPsec VPN uses two security associations, one for encrypted…
This post provides an overviews on free and open-source software (FOSS) projects. Assessing whether a Software Project should be FOSS The answer to whether a software project should be FOSS or not depends on cultural beliefs, interests, needs and environment.…
Document store database are NoSQL databases. List of Document Store Databases Document stores are specifically designed to handle JSON-like documents. Document store solutions: Apache CouchDB Apache CouchDB is a document store database. It is FOSS, under an Apache 2.0 license.…
Apart from public domain, there are licenses that are considered public-domain-equivalent licenses and are very short licenses that keep no rights on the software. People considering releasing a software as public domain or equivalent should take into account that releasing…
A contributor license agreement (CLA), sometimes called participation agreement, is a document that defines the terms under which intellectual property has been contributed to a project or organization. CLAs are typically used on FOSS projects. Reasons to use a CLA…
This post is an introduction to free and open source software (FOSS) licenses. This post is part of the series of articles, whose main post is Software Licenses. Definition of Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) Licenses In the world…