Be legally proactive before using open-source software

If your company develops or uses software, attorneys and industry insiders have a message for you: Beware and be proactive, especially when it comes to “open-source” software.

That’s the kind of software where the underlying programming code is available to the users to read, make changes to it and build new versions of it incorporating their changes.

The Wall Street Journal has written open-source software is one of the “most important forces” in all of technology.

It’s easy to get – and less expensive than proprietary software – and that has led to massive growth. How much growth?

It’s hard…