Responsibilities
* Evaluate and communicate implications of FOSS licenses to both technical and nontechnical teams
* Contribute to training and awareness of licensing implications within engineering team
* Documenting and summarizing the risks associated with an opensource license
* Categorizing licenses not recognized by automation into appropriate categories including Liberal, Weak Copyleft, Copyleft and Banned as defined
* Analysis of output of software license scanning tools to identify incorrectly reported missing license data
* Review existing opensource licenses and recommend any changes required
* Work with existing suppliers of software licensing tools to improve the quality of software license reporting
* Participate in the selection assessment and development of license evaluation automation
* To be successful the candidate will be a self-starter, be well organised, disciplined, be able to work with minimal supervision, have exceptional attention to detail and excellent communication skills
Qualifications
* Knowledge of software licensing terminology and experience of working with a range of opensource software licences
* Interest and experience in software development
* Experience of opensource software from a usage or contribution perspective
* Ability to differentiate between opensource and free of charge, chargeable commercial licences
* Legal training, copyright law
* Worked in a control or a regulated environment
* Evaluation tooling: Nexus IQ Server or other e.g. Black Duck
Note
This job description summarizes the responsibilities and qualifications for the FOSS Licensing SME role. It does not include any application form or submission instructions.
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