Many companies distributing open source software don't know it
Too many companies have no idea that they're distributing open source software and therefore violating the GPL, a survey by OpenLogic found.
I found those results to be more disturbing than if they were knowingly distributing open source software and just not bothering to educate themselves on the copyleft provisions or just not caring about them. The fact that so many businesses are building their enterprise on software they don't fully understand is disturbing.
OpenLogic's survey found that more than 65 percent of respondents who believed they were not distributing OSS actually were to customers, partners or others. And though 84 percent of all respondents were using OSS in the workplace, only 22 percent were using some sort of tool to determine whether the software they were distributing contained any of that code.
Overall, 59.8 percent of those responding said they didn't distribute open source software outside of their company, 32.9 percent said they did and 7.3 percent weren't sure.
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