License risks from ad hoc reuse of code from the internet

  • Authors:
  • Manuel Sojer;Joachim Henkel

  • Affiliations:
  • Bain & Company, Munich, Germany;Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany

  • Venue:
  • Communications of the ACM
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

Software developers' reuse of code from the Internet bears legal and economic risks for their employers.