Article 3P7Q4 [$] Containers and license compliance

[$] Containers and license compliance

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jake
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Containers are, of course, all the rage these days; in fact, during his2018 Legal andLicensing Workshop (LLW) talk, Dirk Hohndelsaid with a grin that he hears "containers may take off". But, whilecontainers are easy to set up and use, license compliance for containers is "incrediblyhard". He has been spending "way too much time" thinking about containercompliance recently and, beyond the standard "let's go shopping" solutionto hard problems, has come up with some ideas.Hohndel is a longtime member of the FOSS community who is now the chiefopen source officer at VMware-a company that ships some container images.

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