On Sun, Oct 27, 2013 at 9:52 PM, Sahil ModGill <[email protected] > wrote: [snip]
> Now my question is, if someone is using Open Source softwares in his office > / business then is there any need of Auditing? > > oh yes, absolutely - there are licenses for Open source software too, and a company might be infringing on them by one or more ways - for example 1. Using assets (code, images, text, data) without attributing credit 2. Hiding branding information that attributes towards original author 3. Building upon code without contributing to the main branch which might be on certain restrictive licenses You might understand the magnitude if you know that there are many companies that do open source audits as a business like blackduck, and there are products that scourge through code to bring out any non-compliances. Regards, M _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc ILUGC Mailing List Guidelines: http://ilugc.in/mailinglist-guidelines
