About the calculus for the project [LWN.net]

About the calculus for the project

Posted Feb 1, 2012 19:22 UTC (Wed) by cmorgan (guest, #71980)
In reply to: About the calculus for the project by tbird20d
Parent article: A tempest in a toybox

I've heard of the same thing happening with proprietary software. Some disgruntled employee lets it slip that software X is being used without a license and the company ends up having to buy a bunch of licenses or a site license or face legal action.

Most companies take care to have an appropriate number of licenses for their software. They should do the same if its my software or big company X's software and I'm glad to see people like the SFC sticking up for the little guy.

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About the calculus for the project

Posted Feb 1, 2012 20:09 UTC (Wed) by raven667 (subscriber, #5198) [Link]

I have not gone through one but I understand that BSA audits are no picnic and compliance efforts tend to be more expensive and complex than for Free Software licenses. Certainly the organizations I've worked for were far more concerned about the cost of a BSA audit and compliance action on proprietary software than GPL software, for example you don't need to track each copy of GPL software you use, only the provenance of software thats shipped to customers.