Company: IOT
Filing Date: 2025-03-25
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0001642896-25-000022
Chunk: 66

Company: Samsara Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-03-25
Form: 10-K
Item: Item 1A
Chunk 66
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 source software could negatively affect our ability to sell subscriptions to our Connected Operations Platform and subject us to possible litigation.

Our Connected Operations Platform, Applications, and device endpoints incorporate open source software, and we expect to continue to incorporate open source software in the future. Many licenses applicable to open source software have not been interpreted by courts, and there is a risk that any open source licenses could be construed in a manner that could impose unanticipated conditions or restrictions on our ability to commercialize our solution or other products we may develop in the future. We cannot be certain that developers will comply with our review processes or not incorporate software code made available under certain open source licenses into our proprietary code base.

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We may be found to have incorporated open source software in our software in a manner that is inconsistent with the terms of the applicable license or our current policies and procedures. For example, certain kinds of open source licenses may require that any person who creates a product or service that contains, links to, or is derived from software that was subject to an open source license must also make their own product or service subject to the same open source license. If these requirements are found to apply to our products and we fail to comply with them, we may be subject to certain requirements, including requirements that we offer additional portions of our solution for no cost, that we make available additional source code for modifications or derivative works we create based upon, incorporating or using the open source software, and that we license such modifications or derivative works under the terms of applicable open source licenses.

If an author or other third party that distributes such open source software were to allege that we had not complied with the conditions of one or more of these licenses, we could be required to incur significant legal expenses defending against such allegations and could be subject to significant damages, enjoined from the sale of our products that contained the open source software, or required to comply with onerous conditions or restrictions on these products, which could disrupt the distribution and sale of these products. In addition, there have been claims challenging the ownership rights in open source software against companies that incorporate open source software into their products, and the licensors of such open source software provide no warranties or indemnities with respect to such claims. Moreover, we cannot assure you that our processes for controlling our use of open source software in our solution will be effective. Third parties may also change their open source offerings to commercial products. In any of these events, we, our customers, and our channel or other partners could be required to