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Authored by: greed on Thursday, April 26 2012 @ 07:36 PM EDT |
That's the policy I work... now that we've been acquired by a Certain Large
Company.
Pass the licence to Legal for review before you go near a 3rd party product.
Open or proprietary, doesn't matter.
(There's a list of pre-cleared products AND versions, with notations for the
approved use: whether it can be used internally, used as part of a product, used
on a client system, and so on. So you don't necessarily have to ask for
everything; it may have been done already. But it does mean that, say, a new
version of Tomcat is not automatically approved.)
I was doing something similar before the acquisition, but developers Have Been
Known to download stuff and commit it. Now Corporate is on my side. (Legal has
almost always been on my side... though once there was a Legal person who said,
effectively, "don't worry about that clause in the license, they won't find
out". I never heard from him again....)
Unlike Oracle, the Certain Large Company spent more than 6 months on "due
diligence". Audits and analysis of the code base continues "to this
very day". And they already knew about the software patent suit... as they
were a co-defendant.
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