Linux Foundation Releases New White Paper on FOSS Compliance for Suppliers

"The Linux Foundation strives to provide relevant, useful guidance to organizations setting up their free and open source software (FOSS) compliance programs. Last month, we released a white paper titled "A Five Step Compliance Process for FOSS Identification and Review."

Now, we are releasing a freely available new white paper 'FOSS Compliance Practices for Supplied Software.' It examines compliance practices needed when software supplied by a third party vendor is brought into the code baseline of a product to be distributed externally. The white paper discusses requirements a company should impose upon its suppliers to disclose FOSS in their deliverables and to provide what's needed to achieve compliance. The paper also discusses steps a company can take to review and validate the FOSS disclosures made by its suppliers. In addition to those topics, the white paper addresses measures a company can undertake to assess its suppliers' compliance capabilities.

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