FOSS License Compatibility
As your company develops software, it’s now certain that it will incorporate some open source in the mix. According to the 2021 Red Hat State of Enterprise Open Source report, 90 percent of IT leaders use open source in their companies[27] (and in my experience the other 10 percent do as well but are unaware of it). With so much open source in the mix, it’s inevitable that it will include components released under several different free and open source licenses. Nothing’s wrong with doing this, but if the software is going to be distributed at all, then that mix of licenses means you need to pay more attention to what they are. Not all FOSS licenses are compatible with each other.
License compatibility determines whether ...
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