In an article for The Licensing Journal, partners Douglas Crisman and Janice Logan and associate Manu Bansal discussed some of the benefits and risks of open-source–based software development, including the risks inherent in trusting business functions to public code and in mixing open-source software (OSS) with company code. The authors also addressed a process for avoiding the unintended and unwelcome consequences of an ill-considered commitment to a particular OSS solution.