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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 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. 

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Our Program

As a strong supporter of open source software, Eaton respects the rules that apply to the use and distribution of software including open source components, and encourages its 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. 
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Our Policy

Eaton has its guidelines and policies that govern the use of open source within the software we produce. By providing adequate training, top class scanning tools and expert support to the project teams, Eaton strives to make sure that license obligations are fulfilled and any license conflict is solved before releasing software to the public. 

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 R&D effort by Eaton Corporation, provided to the community under GPL 2+ license. While Eaton continues to be a key contributor to 42ITy™, the community continues to grow. 

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Open source: the lynchpin of the Brightlayer digital platform

At Eaton, 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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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.

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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.
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