LinuxCon + CloudOpen + ELC-E Europe 2014

Nowadays software is usually a combination of own-written code and FOSS; in some cases it also contains proprietary parts licensed under non-FOSS licenses. This talk will present lessons learned while building a corporate software legal compliance system that is sensitive to the needs of developers while still pleasing the lawyers. It will touch upon different aspects of the set of processes and mechanisms used. Such mechanisms exist to provide answers to questions such as how can FOSS be used; how can FOSS be integrated; and how can FOSS be released? It is obvious that the task of legal compliance involves developers as well as people from legal professions; therefore an important part of structuring any system or set of processes has to be the satisfaction of both these groups of users.