Now I get Black Duck

Now I get Black Duck

It is entirely in the hands of the boss of the company to make it clear to their employees that copying from an open-source program is only allowed for software under BSD - style licenses. The boss has to make sure the employees are educated. And the boss has to make sure, that in the employment contract a clause is incorporated which makes the employer personally liable for any costs arising from illegal code incorporation he performes.

IBM does that, and had they not done that with all employees working on Linux, SOME code from SCO maybe WOULD have found it's way into linux. As it is now, there is no code from SCO UNIX in Linux. What IBM can do, every company can do.

"The easy availability of reciprocally-licensed software does create a legal risk and QA expense for proprietary software companies. I bet RMS thought of this in the 80s."

Maybe he did, but as the only option would have been BSD - style licenses he had no choice. He wanted to ensure that everyone who takes also has to give, thus minimizing the possibility of forks. A fair license, if you ask me.

Geri