Open-source software

Code anyone may use under a public licence. Most licences ask for little more than credit, but copyleft licences can require a product built with the code to be shared on the same terms. On Sunrise copyleft code appeared only in internal build tools, which never ship. Report §7.3 · Chapter 10

Explained in Chapter 10, IP, IT and Data, of Legal Due Diligence.

How it comes up, in Chapter 10

Almost no software is written from scratch. It is built on open-source software, code that anyone may use under a public licence. Most of these licences ask for little more than credit to the authors. The family that worries buyers is copyleft.

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