You think about your software as lines of code.  An IP attorney sees your software as a copyright protected work, some of which belong to you and third party copyright protected code which belong to third parties.  How do you know if your software code contains copyright protected third party works?  In this episode, software licensing attorney and open source specialist Russell Gelvin explains what a software audit is, and how a software audit is conducted. Who owns the copyright to your code? Now, there's a lot of different issues we could dig into today, but today we're going to be talking about some very important aspects of doing due diligence on your software code. And the best way to do that is to do a software audit.

And that means to actually do a line-by-line analysis of your code to make sure that you are not violating any third-party copyright notices, that you have the rights you think you do in your code, and to try and resolve any issues that you find. Russell is a licensing and software attorney for Travis Legal. He is an expert in software auditing. Welcome to the show, Russell.