Overview

Since the start of the economic crisis, companies have been faced with the challenges of reducing budgets while continuing to deliver innovative software applications that allow organisations to improve productivity and gain advantage in an increasingly competitive marketplace. This is why so many companies rely on open source software to complete software projects with fewer coding resources.

However, internal legal counsel increasingly face a common dilemma - how to enable enterprise software development teams to more efficiently leverage open source software while protecting the enterprise from licensing risks. OSS is software for which the human-readable source code is made available under a copyright license. Software development teams can use, change and improve the software, and can redistribute it in modified or unmodified form. It is very often developed in a public, collaborative manner, and it is easily available to software developers via the Internet.

This guide from Black Duck is designed to tell corporate counsel all they to know about ensuring OSS policy implementation in their company. It covers open source software licensing issues, how to eliminate a company's exposure, and provides best practices to simplify compliance.

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