COOL January 2026 edition (January 28, 2026) | Exhaustion of distribution rights in the supply chain - use cases of FOSS licensing

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2025

COOL January 2025 edition (January 29, 2025) | Open Source compliance: Technical must-knows for legal experts

COOL February 2025 edition (February 26, 2025) | Understanding and using eBPF of the Linux kernel

COOL March 2025 edition (March 26, 2025) | Copyright aspects of training and using AI

COOL April 2025 edition (April 30, 2025) | Industrial I/O subsystem of the Linux kernel

COOL September 2025 edition (September 24, 2025) | OSADL CRA Policy Template and frequently asked questions on CRA application

COOL October 2025 edition (October 8, 2025) | Contributing to Open Source: Background, a company's experience and a maintainer's perspective

COOL November 2025 edition (November 12, 2025) | News from the OSSelot Project and integration of source code provenance analysis 

COOL December 2025 edition (December 10, 2025) | Current status of low-code/no-code platforms and demonstration of a practical example

2024

 COOL January 2024 edition (January 31, 2024) | Licensing Linux distributions: Snaps, Yocto and beyond

COOL February 2024 edition (February 28, 2024) | Security of embedded systems

COOL March 2024 edition (March 20, 2024) | The Open Source Curation Database OSSelot: How to use it and how to contribute

COOL April 2024 edition (April 24, 2024) | Flutter for embedded systems - a new approach for industrial HMIs

COOL September 2024 edition (September 25, 2024) | Integrating OSSelot curation data into OpenEmbedded: Presenting meta-osselot

COOL October 2024 edition (October 16, 2024) | Comparing systemd and other init processes for embedded systems

COOL November 2024 edition (November 27, 2024) | Open Source tools for compliance with CRA and similar regulations

COOL December 2024 edition (December 11, 2024) | Taking license compliance to the next level: Investigate component interdependency

2023

COOL January 2023 edition (January 25, 2023) | Make Linux better and faster with PAPI and Perf

COOL February 2023 edition (February 15, 2023) | Open Source software and dual licensing

COOL March 2023 edition (March 29, 2023) | Programming for Linux PREEMPT_RT: How to do it the right way?

COOL April 2023 edition (April 26, 2023) | OSS Review Toolkit (ORT)

COOL May 2023 edition (May 17, 2023) | "Industrie 4.0" - Introduction and use cases

COOL September 2023 edition (September 20, 2023) | Secure Boot and (L)GPL installation obligations: Solutions for compliance

COOL October 2023 edition (October 18, 2023) | Dynamically changing frequencies and real-time on a single platform – How is this possible?

COOL November 2023 edition (November 22, 2023) | EU Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) - Current status of the draft and how companies should prepare for it

COOL December 2023 edition (December 13, 2023) | Edge computing: Rationale, concept and presentation of an Open Source solution for lightweight devices

2022

COOL January 2022 edition (January 26, 2022) | Open Source training concepts

COOL February 2022 edition (February 23, 2022) | Current status of Linux real-time on its way to mainline

COOL March 2022 edition (March 23, 2022) | New and established tools for software scanning

COOL April 2022 edition (April 27, 2022) | Comparison of the various Linux hypervisor technologies with respect to real-time capabilities (The COOL April edition has been postponed to fall 2022).

COOL May 2022 edition (May 18, 2022) | OSADL Open Source Policy with special emphasis on the role of the Open Source Compliance Officer (OSCO)

COOL September 2022 edition (September 21, 2022) | Real-time in a virtual system?! Comparing real-time capabilities of various types of Linux hypervisors and containers (Replacement event for the cancelled COOL April 2022 edition)

COOL October 2022 edition (October 25, 2022) | SaaS, Cloud, Javascript: License obligations for using FOSS on the Web

COOL November 2022 edition (November 30, 2022) | Flavors of real-time: OS-9, QNX, VxWorks, Xenomai, Zephyr, FreeRTOS, Linux PREEMPT_RT

COOL December 2022 edition (December 14, 2022) | Sharing and reusing OSS compliance information: The Open Source Curation Database

2021

COOL January 2021 edition (January 20, 2021) | Linux real-time on its way to mainline

COOL February 2021 edition (February 24, 2021) | License compliance policy

COOL March 2021 edition (March 24, 2021) | Security of embedded Linux systems

COOL April 2021 edition (April 21, 2021) | Redistribution of a Linux distribution - not as easy as it might appear

COOL May 2021 edition (May 19, 2021) | Accelerated graphics with real-time. How do they play together?

COOL September 2021 edition (September 22, 2021) | Distributing Docker container applications: Legal challenges and solutions

COOL October 2021 edition (October 20, 2021) | Time synchronization for TSN: How to obtain both stable and correct time

COOL November 2021 edition (November 17, 2021) | Open Source software license compliance certification and how to get there

COOL December 2021 edition (December 15, 2021) | Accelerated graphics with real-time. How do they play together? Part 2 with special consideration of ARM processors

2020

COOL October 2020 edition (October 22, 2020) | Open Source software copyright issues with special focus on redistributing Docker images

COOL November 2020 edition (November 18, 2020) | The OSADL QA Farm and how real-time Ethernet is implemented

COOL December 2020 edition (December 16, 2020) | License Compliance and related company processes

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