For developers

Open source: Innovating in the open

Open source is central to the Eaton development process. It represents a common ground to innovate, a de facto standard that leads to a more secure, interoperable, and vendor neutral working environment that shares the same relationship intimacy between suppliers and users.

Eaton’s adoption of the tenets of open source software development is not just academic. We believe in the sharing of code as a way to democratize and speed development, and we are an active contributor to and producer of open source code.

Our approach

As a strong supporter of open source software, we respect the rules that apply to the use and distribution of software including open source components, and encourage our software developers to pro-actively contribute back and collaborate with open source communities, from small individual contributions up to enterprise product or platform related projects.

Our policy

With guidelines and policies that govern the use of open source within the software we produce, we are focused on educating our teams and our customers on the benefits of open source. By providing adequate training, top class scanning tools and expert support to project teams, we focus on ensuring that license obligations are fulfilled.

You may use, copy, distribute, and modify the software covered by the license, but if you make changes, you must share the modified source code alongside the modified binaries.

From the Gnu Public license, a precursor to open source

A key enabler of inclusive development

Open source was conceived to manage the copyright of software in an intelligent and collaborative way. It gives users the license to use, modify and share the software. Thus, everyone can benefit from the advances in software design. To “open” the source code of the software is a pre-requisite for this concept which stands in contrast to proprietary software where the source code is generally not available. While these concepts were already well established, the term “open source” was coined only in the 1990s. It quickly became very popular as it avoided the ambiguity of the term “free” which can be used to describe the freedoms to use the software, not the software’s cost. Today, the Open Source Initiative (OSI) and the Free Software Foundation provide definitions of what is recognized as open source.

OPEN SOURCE PROJECT HIGHLIGHT

42ITy: for the benefit of developers, users and the entire data center ecosystem

The goal of the 42ITy project is to serve developers, users and the entire data center ecosystem by providing a set of shared resources to grow the adoption of 42ITy as the only open source, next generation Data Center Service Optimization enablement platform through a software architecture based on micro-services.

The 42ITy platform is a result of many years of research and development effort provided to the community under a GPL 2+ license. While we continue to be a key contributor to 42ITy, the community continues to grow.

Open source: a cornerstone of our Brightlayer digital platform

We recognize that one of the keys to our continued success is the enablement of an honest, open dialog with commercial software developers and developer partners within our customer and distribution communities.

The ability to share access to code with developers with an open source approach will enable breakthroughs and advancements to the benefit of all participants.

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