Aahit Gaba

Thank you Mr. Martin.

You gave a good interpretation like FUD (Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt). Organizations of developing countries are still not much aware of OSS compliance issues or I can say OSS compliance is at very nascent stage especially in INDIA or other developing countries. Gradually, it is improving. There must be some awareness sessions for organizations or Govt. agencies put forth some rules for compliance.

Because, if someone uses an OSS which is under GPL license and statically link with its proprietary, in this case GPL requires its proprietary has to be under GPL terms and complete source code would be put on view - Its ok until this is hidden, but tomorrow or day after tomorrow or sometime later this thing will be caught; and this would affect whole supply chain.

It’s like the morning is when you wake up :)

Many organisations (around 80%) are deploying FOSS with their proprietary model knowingly or unknowingly. The important thing is to comply with the Open Source licenses, however, there are dearth of OSS experts who can guide or manage IP risks associated with Open Source. This is the main reason companies are avoiding Open Source or afraid of using it.