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How to Avoid Costly Lawsuits from Unexpected NuGet License Agreements
Posted on August 14th, 2025.Include NuGet Packages into your company's pre-existing third-party software policy to check the license type and avoid potential lawsuits.
Include NuGet Packages into your company's pre-existing third-party software policy to check the license type and avoid potential lawsuits.
This article is part of our series on NuGet at Scale, also available as a chapter in our free, downloadable eBook Using NuGet in your development starts out easy, a few projects, a small team, grabbing packages from NuGet.org. But as your org grows, things slowly get messy. More teams, more repos, more tools, all adding to the chaos....
NuGet is the go-to package manager for .NET and is built right into tools like Visual Studio, making adding, updating, and managing libraries super easy. By default, Visual Studio pulls packages from NuGet.org—but giving your team unrestricted access to all those packages can be risky. Over 80% of projects rely on outdated dependencies,...
Learn about the complexities of NuGet, the risks of using third-party packages from NuGet.org, and how to effectively manage both proprietary and open-source packages in the enterprise.
When you develop .NET applications, you most certainly will work with NuGet packages to manage libraries and dependencies. Making sure these packages are safe for production use is a crucial responsibility. Chances are you've also used the NuGet or dotnet CLI to scan all your packages.
Debugging your NuGet packages can be a total pain. In fact, it’s one of the main reasons that development teams are hesitant to break apart their monolithic .NET solution. Fortunately, there's a pretty easy solution to this problem; NuGet Symbol Packages. In this article I’ll discuss how.
This article is part of our series on NuGet at Scale, also available as a chapter in our free, downloadable eBook. Are you deploying applications to production with packages downloaded directly from NuGet.org? Many organizations start this way—it’s the default behavior of most NuGet clients. But while convenient, this approach can...
This article is part of our series on NuGet at Scale, also available as a chapter in our free, downloadable eBook. So, you set up a local, private NuGet repository on a network file share for your small team, and it worked great… At first. But as an organization scales and more packages (and more developers) join the mix, things...
A quick explainer article to understand Symbols and Symbol packages for NuGet package debugging.
When NuGet packages are stored on third-party platforms, proprietary stuff isn't private. Setting up a private NuGet server is free and easy.