How closely can a review board examine a product?
Levin: What they aren’t able to do is a line-by-line code review. That’s one of the needs we saw when creating our company. Black Duck can automate line-by-line code reviews and other processes and work in conjunction with a review board. In the absence of a review board, Black Duck can work in conjunction with development teams and attorneys. So, a company has an open source review board and uses review automation software and services. What else should it be doing to protect itself from copyright violation claims? Levin: It is also necessary to educate executives and people involved in management. Specific education for developers is also needed. They all need to know how to legally use open source software, what the processes are. People need to just be sensitized to the use of open source software and the proper licensing of it. They need to understand the resources that they have available to support the use of open source. Most importantly, companies have to facilitate conversati
