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Free and Open Source Software Overview and Preliminary Guidelines for the Government of Canada

Table of Contents

Executive Summary

1 Introduction
2 How to read and navigate this report
3 Report Validation Process

Part I: FOSS Executive Introduction

4 Main Definitions
5 FOSS Legal Background
6 Key Findings on FOSS Evolution
7 FOSS Risks and Drawbacks
8 FOSS Adoption Around the World
9 FOSS in the USA
10 FOSS in Canada
11 FOSS and Software Security
12 Authors’ Synthesis

Part II: Proposed Way-Ahead for GoC

13 Guiding Principles for a Way-Ahead
14 Proposed Way-Ahead for GoC

Part III: Catalogue of Selected FOSS that could be considered in GoC Projects

15 Overview of Available FOSS
16 FOSS Relevant to GoC

Part IV: GoC Guidelines to Assess FOSS

17 Guideline Principles
18 Recommended Evaluation Steps
19 Licenses in GoC Software Developments
20 Migration to FOSS

Part V: References / Acronyms / Glossary

References
List of Acronyms
Glossary of Relevant Terms