"The Law Doesn’t Work Like a Computer": Exploring Software Licensing Issues Faced by Legal Practitioners
Most modern software products incorporate open source components, which requires compliance with each component’s licenses. As noncompliance can lead to significant repercussions, organizations often seek advice from legal practitioners to maintain license compliance, address licensing issues, and manage the risks of noncompliance. While legal practitioners play a critical role in the process, little is known in the software engineering community about their experiences within the open source license compliance ecosystem. To fill this knowledge gap, a joint team of software engineering and legal researchers designed and conducted a survey with 30 legal practitioners and related occupations and then held 16 follow-up interviews. We identified different aspects of OSS license compliance from the perspective of legal practitioners, resulting in 14 key findings in three main areas of interest: the general ecosystem of compliance, the specific compliance practices of legal practitioners, and the challenges that legal practitioners face. We discuss the implications of our findings.
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11:00 - 12:30 | Human Aspects 1Research Papers / Industry Papers at Mandacaru Chair(s): Christoph Treude Singapore Management University | ||
11:00 18mTalk | "The Law Doesn’t Work Like a Computer": Exploring Software Licensing Issues Faced by Legal Practitioners Research Papers Nathan Wintersgill William & Mary, Trevor Stalnaker William & Mary, Laura A. Heymann William & Mary, Oscar Chaparro William & Mary, Denys Poshyvanyk William & Mary | ||
11:18 18mTalk | AI-assisted Code Authoring at Scale: Fine-tuning, deploying, and mixed methods evaluation Research Papers Vijayaraghavan Murali Meta Platforms Inc., Chandra Sekhar Maddila Meta Platforms, Inc., Imad Ahmad Meta Platforms, Inc., Michael Bolin Meta Platforms, Inc., Daniel Cheng Meta Platforms Inc., Negar Ghorbani Meta Platforms Inc., Renuka Fernandez Meta Platforms, Inc., Nachiappan Nagappan Meta Platforms, Inc., Peter C Rigby Meta / Concordia University | ||
11:36 18mTalk | An Analysis of the Costs and Benefits of Autocomplete in IDEs Research Papers Shaokang Jiang University of California, San Diego, Michael Coblenz University of California, San Diego Pre-print | ||
11:54 18mTalk | Shadows in the Interface: A Comprehensive Study on Dark Patterns Research Papers Liming Nie Nanyang Technological University, Yangyang Zhao Zhejiang Sci-Tech University, Chenglin Li Zhejiang Sci-Tech University, Xuqiong Luo Changsha University of Science and Technology, Yang Liu Nanyang Technological University | ||
12:12 9mTalk | Paths to Testing: Why Women Enter and Remain in Software Testing? Industry Papers Kleice Silva CESAR School, Ann Barcomb Department of Electrical and Software Engineering, Schulich School of Engineering, University of Calgary, Ronnie de Souza Santos University of Calgary |