Some nice summary statistics Dana. They paint a picture of an emerging IP rights vacuum in the wake of an accelerating ?cut & paste? open world. At Protecode we often see the situation you describe- developers accidentally incorporating OSS through 3rd parties such as outsourcers. As their projects bulk up, licensing management becomes a mosaic of unknown obligations. The sheer volume of code makes it virtually impossible to manage the situation manually. Automation becomes the only way to make sense of it. Companies like Protecode and Black Duck add a counter balance into the open source echo system- audit services and tools that make it practical for open source adopters to implement efficient OSS policies. And the best part is that these tools can let developers get back to what they do best- developing software- and not worry about licenses.
Mahshad Koohgoli, Protecode
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