- 4,323
- 4,705
Any halp fighting the BSA software alliance
Contact your company's attorney. If your company doesn't have one, now is the time to get one. The BSA sucks and will sue your company if you don't comply. The easiest way to get them off of your case is contact your company's attorney and have them assist in a voluntary audit. Its important that its attorney assisted because the BSA can (and prob will) reject an internal audit. With an attorney, the audit can be used in court if necessary (attorney-work and attorney-client privilege).
Don't bother purchasing the missing licenses or trying to cover your tracks. The BSA won't acknowledge licences purchased after the date of their letter, and you won't be able to cover your tracks.
Short of that, if you are a sysadmin who knowingly distributed pirated software in a corporate environment, you will lose your job and most likely be blacklisted by a number of reputable organizations.
I'd say sorry, but honestly, you should know better. If you were pressured to do it by your boss/supervisor, try to locate that correspondence if its in written form anywhere... Even a chat log. Its bad enough that you've received the letter...it will be horrible for you if they can prove that it was you, acting independently.
Assuming you perform an attorney assisted audit and they find deployments without a matching license, they will send your company a settlement request and its pretty straightforward from there.
Last edited: