Pre-Grant Publication Number: 20080209399
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Summary / Description
| Summary / Description | Now that Free and Open Source software has hit the mainstream of the enterprise, businesses need to be certain that they are not taking on legal liabilities with the code. There are many licenses, and making sure a company is abiding by them all is complex. That's one reason you are hearing so many voices calling for simplifying and settling on fewer licenses. But it goes deeper than that. |
Basic Information
| Type of Prior Art | Online Publication |
| URL | http://lwn.net/Articles/138248/ |
| Author/Creator | Pamela Jones |
| Title | IP Software Compliance Tools -- Who Needs Them and Why? |
| Publication Date | June 1, 2005 |
| Publisher | lwn.net |
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Excerpt
Excerpt After their software evaluates the code matches, Palamida assigns a CodeRank number to the matches |
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If a coderank is low, then the code has been effectively "flagged" as not infringing a copyright. The claim should also be objected to as having insufficient support in the written desription.
If a coderank is low, then the code has been effectively "flagged" as not infringing a copyright. The claim should also be objected to as having insufficient support in the written desription.
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If a coderank is low, then the code has been effectively "flagged" as not infringing a copyright. The claim should also be objected to as having insufficient support in the written desription.
If a coderank is low, then the code has been effectively "flagged" as not infringing a copyright. The claim should also be objected to as having insufficient support in the written desription.
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If a coderank is low, then the code has been effectively "flagged" as not infringing a copyright. The claim should also be objected to as having insufficient support in the written desription.
If a coderank is low, then the code has been effectively "flagged" as not infringing a copyright. The claim should also be objected to as having insufficient support in the written desription.
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