Volkswagen Infotainment has a rich landscape of fast-growing teams. In March and April, we welcomed 28 new colleagues into our ranks. Two of these specialists joined The Open Source Software (OSS) Team: Christoph Linde and Matthias Stratmann. Welcome to Volkswagen Infotainment!
Now, for some context: What does Team OSS do?
The Open Source Software Team ensures that VWIF’s Software Products are delivered in compliance with the Open Source Licenses’ obligations. Apart from software created by VWIF itself and software commercially purchased from suppliers and partner companies, a significant amount of software in today’s ECUs (Electronic Control Units), backend and cloud systems is Open Source. More complex ECUs like the OCU (Online Connectivity Unit) developed by VWIF can easily contain tens of thousands of Open Source Software files. For handling such large amounts of data in a repeatedly reliable and error-free way, our OSS Team has developed a toolchain that supports the OSS analysis in a highly automated way.
Team OSS is interwoven with Volkswagen Infotainment’s and CARIAD’s software developers in order to support and help with any Open Source related clarification. The team’s work also has a legal touch: Bridging the legal language and the engineering language so as to achieve a common understanding that enables implementing license-compliant solutions. Interpreting the legal language of OSS licenses is done in close cooperation with our legal counsels. Together with CARIAD, the brands Volkswagen, Audi and Porsche, VWIF’s OSS team is working on streamlining the Volkswagen Group’s OSS processes and aims at a common approach.