Tips For Managing Legal Risks for Businesses Using Open Source Software

• Posted by Geoffrey G. Gussis on November 30th, 2005


• Filed in Intellectual Property

Looking for information on best practices for dealing with open source software? If you are, check out Dennis Kennedy’s article, which is now available on LLRX.com:

"My article called "Best Legal Practices for Open Source Software: Ten Tips For Managing Legal Risks for Businesses Using Open Source Software" has just been published on the excellent LLRX.com website, along with several other articles that will make a trip to the site well worth your effort.

In the article, I take a very practical approach to dealing with the legal risk management issues that arise when a business uses or wants to use Open Source software. I take the somewhat unusual point of view for lawyers that people might actually want to use Open Source software in many situations and that the standard lawyer approach of saying "no" to everything really is not useful. Check it out if Open Source software or that approach to it interests you.

I’ll also note that the article grew out of a presentation of mine that helped me put together some of my initial ideas about "open source law." If you read the article, you may see some of the basis for some of my thinking about what we talk about on this blog from time to time under the topic of "open source lawyering."

Link: Tips For Managing Legal Risks for Businesses Using Open Source Software. Between Lawyers: technology   culture   law.