Open Source Compliance in the DevOps World
Adam Mackay
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Adam Mackay
Head of AI Research at QA-Systems | Technology Writer & Author (Views My Own)
As developers today, we stand on the shoulders of giants. By building applications on top of an existing landscape of established open source components, we can spend our valuable time innovating rather than reinventing the wheel. But there is a distinction between using someone else’s code for inspiration and using open source directly without understanding the legal framework.
License restrictions
If you do not follow the license restrictions associated with the open source code you are using in your product, you can open yourself up to not only bad public relations but some serious lawsuits. To help mitigate the risk...