How to manage Open Source in SaaS

Open Source Software in SaaS Offerings: Truths, Myths, and Considerations

If your company offers a product via a software-as-a-service (SaaS) model, some of the most common open source licenses, while being quite problematic for distributed software, may “give a free pass” to SaaS applications. This whitepaper is a discussion of the legal, security, operational, and strategic considerations; they are all manageable but are not to be ignored.