As most of the mobile applications used today contain open source, 70% fail to comply with their respective licenses. From a recent survey conducted by OpenLogic, Inc., a leading provider of enterprise open source software support, announced that 71% of Android, iPhone, and iPad apps containing open source failed to comply with basic open source licensing requirements. They scanned 635 leading mobile applications in order to identify open source components and evaluate compliance with the relevant licenses.

Applications that contain open source components are required to comply with the rules of all relevant licenses, such as the GPL or Apache license. Applications that fail to comply may be subject to legal action or removal from app stores.Non-compliance with open source licenses is typically not purposeful, but rather caused by a lack of awareness and visibility into open source usage.

Very often developers and the companies bringing out new mobile software are not aware of open source and its constraints or might not even know that an app is using open source while open source compliance is not at all difficult. App developers need to pay attention to open source license compliance to ensure their apps are not impacted by legal actions.

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