With the proliferation of outsourced software development, open source adoption and software that is easily obtainable on the internet, organisations lack control and visibility of their own software content.
Can you state with confidence that your organisation:
- Know what is contained within the software your outsourced development team deliver?
- Understand your liability when re-using software from another vendor?
- Understand and adhere to the variety of open source and free software license agreements?
Not conforming to free software license terms can be an expensive lesson in terms of;
- Recalling and redistributing.
- Open sourcing (making freely available) existing commercial viable software.
- Delaying the release of a product.
- Damaging a company’s reputation.
- Damaging the commercial value of a company to a potential buyer.
Gartner predict that by 2011, 80% of organisations will have open source code within their own software, whether they are aware of it or not.
How do you get instant visibility of your situation?
Partnered with BlackDuck, Clearvision can work with you scan your code base, produce a simple and clear report which highlights any issues along with a plan for rectifying the issue and ensuring it cannot happen again in the future.
See our free webinar for more details. |
