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It is far from a marketing term : opensources products can be used without talking to legal departements. For big compagnies, this a game-changer because you c
by JackSlateur 3y ago
It is far from a marketing term : opensources products can be used without talking to legal departements.
For big compagnies, this a game-changer because you can spare yourself months of "work".
- kelnos 3y ago> opensources products can be used without talking to legal departements. Pretty much every company I've worked at has wanted legal signoff for use of any open source project. Granted, compliance with that directive was often spotty. But some did have a tool to scan our repositories for dependencies, and flag things that had licenses not on an approved list (which, no, was not the entirety of OSI-approved licenses).
- jen20 3y agoAGPL is an “open source” license per OSI - I assure you if you use code licensed under it at many big companies, you might avoid a meeting with legal but will instead get one with HR…
- ForHackernews 3y ago> For big compagnies, this a game-changer because you can spare yourself months of "work". I believe I already stipulated that companies are greedy and devs are lazy. I hope you don't consider your comment a counterargument.