As Hyland utilizes Docker technologies to distribute and run Alfresco, and a lot of other software, I thought that speaking about legal compliance could be interesting. Indeed, end users, paying customers but also open source organisations, are more and more worry about it. 

Let say you integrate Alfresco into other solutions for your customers, and then create a Docker image with custom work and other software, then share it with your customers so they can deploy and run using Docker and Kubernetes. Are you sure that your image is actually compliant?  

In this article I will provide some basics and best practices that should avoid you to fall in the common traps. 

As you know, we utilize the LGPLv3 license to publish the Alfresco Community. In this blog article, I will explain the basics of this license: why Free Software Foundation created it; a bit of its history; how it applies in the real world for developers, integrators, and application builders; and best practices for legal compliance of your projects.