What Every Lawyer Needs to Know About Open Source (OnDemand Webinar)

$199.00

SKU: 407090EAU

Description

Data shows that most companies are greatly undercounting their use of open source software.
This is leading to potential legal and security concerns that need to be respected and tracked. Additionally, trends tell us companies are expecting higher levels of compliance. This begs the question, what is the legal team’s role in managing compliance and security vulnerabilities associated with open source?
There’s a real and immediate need for legal counsel to understand OSS and the accompanying legal obligations and potential business impact. This is true for large enterprises as well as smalltomedium sized businesses. Open source licenses are just like other licenses, meaning there is tremendous value in keeping an accurate inventoryaka bill of materials (BOM)of open source software and licenses, both from a security and compliance perspective. Open source management is also an important part of daytoday operations for Merger Acquisition (MA) and security response.
Join Marty Mellican, Associate General Counsel at Flexera, as he discusses the need for process and lawful management of OSS.

Date: 2019-12-04 Start Time: End Time:

Learning Objectives

The Basics of Intellectual Property (IP) Law and How Open Source Licenses Are Built on Top of Those Principles

A Walk Through of the Most Common OSS Licenses, Including the GPL, AGPL, BSD, Apache, and MIT to Name a Few

How to Work Effectively and Securely With Open Source Software, Both as a Consumer of Someone Else’s Work and as a Creator of Open Source

Trends in Open Source License Enforcement in the Last Year

Expectations for Compliance – What Compliance Looks Like

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