<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">I'd like to add that as former Open Source professional, and a Black Duck certified... quackpot? That there is software that Black Duck will happily provide your Enterprisey company with to trace all of your source code and tell you what OSS is in your project and where the source came from. This is achieved by source code matching, so even if you stripped the comments and cut and pasted code from someone's github repo, it will catch it and attribute it correctly.</div>
<div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">This is expensive and a) worthless to most startups/SMEs and b) invaluable to companies like ARM that @Gavin mentioned.</div>
<div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Fox</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">--</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">
<br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 30 July 2014 19:37, Kerry Buckley <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kerryjbuckley@gmail.com" target="_blank">kerryjbuckley@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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On 30 July 2014 at 19:04:45, Gavin Heavyside (<a href="mailto:gavin@heavyside.co.uk" target="_blank">gavin@heavyside.co.uk</a>) wrote:</div> <div><blockquote type="cite" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">
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To most of us, me included these days, this goes beyond the scope of what is necessary or proportionate to protect our businesses. With larger, more legally minded enterprises, particularly those with enterprise and/or potentially litigious customers, projects with a CLA or other attribution agreement required for all contributions might be easier to get approval for.</div>
</div></span></blockquote></div></div><p>Also important for any policy to distinguish between open source use in products where you actually ship the software, those where it’s used to power services, and those that are purely internal.</p>
<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><p>Kerry</p><div></div></font></span></div><br>_______________________________________________<br>
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