Open Source - Dirty Code, Licenses and Open Source
Getting those answers, she asserts, will be a matter of building trust between the development and legal staffs. “What we really want to get to is an honest conversation. If what you’re saying is, ‘Just say no, we don’t use any of this [open-source] stuff,’ what you’re really saying is, ‘Don’t ask, don’t tell.’ What you need to be saying instead is, ‘We can get an enormous amount of leverage and competitive advantage by making the best use possible of these available resources. But [we need to do] it fully understanding what our compliance obligations are.’”



