What to Include in Your Open Source Software Policy and Why | Practical Law
Free and open source software (FOSS) has gained increasingly widespread acceptance and use in recent years as an alternative or complement to proprietary software. While FOSS is often made publicly available without charge, this does not mean its use is unrestricted or in the public domain. An organization's failure to adopt policies that ensure its compliance with FOSS license terms places it at risk of potential contract and copyright infringement liability and loss of valuable intellectual property rights.