Open-Source Risk Management Tools

This article discusses various risk management tools that in-house counsel can rely on to perform effective open-source due diligence in software acquisitions.

14 minute read January 30, 2013 at 10:40 AM
By
Diana Marina Cooper
Open-Source Risk Management Tools

Many of us in the legal community have heard about the trouble that organizations have come across when using open source improperly (remember Cisco/Linksys, Katzer, and the BusyBox chronicles?).

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