8 docs tagged with "Legal (Role)"

Legal risk refers to the potential for an organization to face legal consequences and financial or reputational harm as a result of its actions or decisions that violate laws and regulations.

The legal team is responsible for providing legal advice and support to the organization.

There are several key points that a large enterprise should consider to ensure compliance with open-source license obligations:

This course is intended for software developers, project managers, legal associates, and executive decision makers who already know the basics of what open source software is and how copyrights work, and are ready to take the next step towards building a formal compliance program for their organization.

This course is intended for developers, project managers and executive decision makers who already know the basics of what open source software is and how copyrights work and are ready to take the next step towards building a formal compliance program for their organization.

This article explains the concept of the Contributor License Agreement (CLA) and Developer Certificate of Origin (DCO) and the practical implications of these for organisations consuming and contributing to open source.

This article looks at Data Loss Prevention (DLP) software commonly used in financial organisations and how these impact open source consumption and contribution. It is not a complete reference for the subject of DLP generally, but should act as a starting point for understanding the issues involved.

This article provides some basic framing around the purpose of licenses within open source: