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May 10, 2006
FOSS Legal Issues?
Some companies are considering Open Source technologies, but having reservations brought on by legal concerns. The Software Freedom Law Center has an article about Sarbanes-Oxley & GPL and finds there is no special risk. For those not familiar, the GPL is one of the more popular open-source software licenses, but is really only one among many.
On the flip side of the issue, here's another article which raises claims of potential legal problems relating to intellectual property claims, and of all things, confidential code. An interesting article, it seems dubious at best that software whose source code is *necessarily* available for review and audit would be *more* a risk. If anything I'd think less.
Posted by admin at May 10, 2006 11:20 PM