Take the tour ×  Are there any situations where it may not be a
good idea to use the code of an open source project, even if
your company might allow you to do so?  Some cases that I think
might be valid include:    • The code may be implemented in a
different languages.   • It is not portable   • It may need some
other close-source libraries  What might be some other reasons?
share|improve this question add comment  4 Answers  The most
obvious to me are...    • When the terms of the license are
incompatible with the way the company will want to deploy the
code - e.g. the GPL may require you to distribute other code in
your project which your company may not even have the right to
distribute.   • When the open source code overlaps strongly with
your companies core expertise. If your companys core expertise
is designing games and graphics rendering engines, for example,
it makes little sense to use Ogre3D. See
http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000007.html   •
When the open source code is badly wri