Webinar: What Every Lawyer Needs to Know About Open Source Software
Flexera will present a complimentary webinar about the basics of open source licensing, vulnerabilities, trends and expectations for compliance.
The event will be Wednesday, April 18, at noon Central time.
Data shows that most companies are significantly under-counting their use of open source software (OSS), leading to potential legal and security concerns that need to be respected, monitored, and — if needed — resolved. Additionally, your customers are expecting higher levels of compliance. This begs the question, what is your legal team’s role in managing compliance and security vulnerabilities associated with OSS?
Marty Mellican, VP and Associate General Counsel at Flexera, will discuss the need for process and lawful management of OSS. This webinar will cover:
- The basics of intellectual property (IP) law and how open source licenses are built on top of those principles
- The most common licenses, including the GPL, AGPL, BSD, Apache, and MIT to name a few
- How to work effectively and securely with OSS both as a consumer and a creator of OSS
- Trends in OSS license enforcement in the last year
- Expectations for compliance and what compliance looks like
- How GDPR will affect your open source use and management
