Software Audits for Merger, Acquisition or Outsourced Delivery

If your organisation uses or resells software products obtained from a third party as the result of either merger, acquisition or delivery from an independent software development outsourcing company, and those products breach open source copyright law, you are directly liable.

The Clearvision Software Audit offering is of interest to those involved in any of the following activities:

Buying a company: If you are involved in acquiring a company with software assets, regardless of whether that software is free to use on the commercial market, you need to understand the liabilities you are inheriting.

Selling a company: If your exit strategy involves selling a company with software assets, clarifying the quality of your software assets early is essential to ensure valuations of the company negotiated down at the last minute.

Legal counsellors: Clearvision provide a fast, responsive software due diligence service which enables you to accurately advise your customers on potential software license issues. A unique and valuable service to offer your clients.

Provision of financial funding: The value and integrity of a software company requesting IPO or expansion funding is hard to quantify and validate. Investing in a company only to find the IPR of the software is invalid or breaches legal copyright could be devastating and at best result in considerable rework and delay.

Reassurance for customers: Customers using your software products can be assured it does not breach copyright law, especially if passing a service to customers of their own. Withdrawal of your software product would impact customers causing delays and financial impact.
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