An internal policy for using, tracking, contributing to and releasing open source software safely, with licence categories, an approval process, SBOM and vulnerability rules.
Tech & SaaS
Open Source Software Policy
About this document
An internal policy for your development team that sets out how open source software may be used in your products and internal systems. It reduces the risk of licence breaches, security vulnerabilities and ownership problems that can surface in customer contracts, investment rounds or a sale of the business.
The document is laid out in the sections below. Each one comes with a plain-English guidance note explaining what it does and what to change.
Our templates are professionally structured starting points for UK businesses, not legal advice. For anything complex, unusual or high-value, have your final version checked by a solicitor.
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