eWeek: Black Duck Lawyer: Due Diligence Can Help Avoid IP Disputes

“As the issue of intellectual property and patent enforcement
continues to gain traction in both the open-source and proprietary
software industries, lawyers from open-source companies are clearly
taking the issue seriously.

“In a talk entitled ‘Reviewing the Use of Open Source Software
in the Enterprise’ at the OSDL Enterprise Linux Summit here on
Monday, Karen Copenhaver, general counsel at Black Duck Software
Inc., said that copyright infringement was a crime and in order to
protect themselves and their customers from potential legal issues,
enterprises using open-source software need to assess their code
base, evaluate the processes that are in place and undertake
remediation… “

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