A Field Guide to Open Source Software Licensing – DABCC.com

Industry research shows that 95% of organizations use Open Source Software (OSS) in their mission critical applications. There are a number of reasons for this, including being able to develop applications faster and with higher quality. And, hey, its free, right? Last year (2016), there were 79 billion (with a B) downloads of OSS components!

At the same time, most organizations have no idea how much open source code they are actually using. In fact, the data says that organizations typically are aware of less than 10% of the open source software they are using.

For enterprises that are developing applications for internal use, OSS represents a potential security risk there are software vulnerabilities in many OSS components. Well known OSS exploits include Heartbleed, Ghost and Shellshock. How many of those 79 billion downloads had more than 1 software vulnerability? 1 out of every 16. Thats more than 4.9 billion OSS components.

What can you do about this?

Read the entire article here, A Field Guide to Open Source Software Licensing

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