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Libraries have licensing requirements that your company needs to comply with. Being able to download and use them without any oversight is an recipe for violati
by slongfield 4y ago
Libraries have licensing requirements that your company needs to comply with. Being able to download and use them without any oversight is an recipe for violating them.
- MAGZine 4y agoor... read the license and make sure you can comply with it. And if you don't know, or are unsure, ask for help. it's absurd to me that you'd need to put every library through compliance even if it has very straight forward OSS licenses.
- nuclearnice1 4y agoIn my experience, it’s impossible to assemble a group of 1000 programmers who are consistently able to read a license and reason correctly about whether the firm can follow it.
- vel0city 4y agoDo you really think everyone hired as a coder has enough intellectual property knowledge to understand all the complexities of all the various open source licenses in every potential usage?
- MAGZine 4y agoNope. That's why I said if you're unsure or don't know, ask.
- omgwtfbyobbq 4y agoMy last large employer handled licensing and defects via periodic scans and background removals/uninstall. There was specific software everyone could install with a service request, non-standard software could also be requested, temporary rights to usual stuff could be requested as could permanent access to those rights.
- saagarjha 4y agoWhy not make the uninstalls/removal upfront? Why do it in the background?
- omgwtfbyobbq 4y agoI'm guessing because it's faster and there's less liability/risk. It was just annoying for me, but I could see it being a significant impediment for some people in some situations.