Company: EVLVW
Filing Date: 2025-08-14
Form Type: 10-Q
Source: 0001805385-25-000009
Chunk: 140

Company: Evolv Technologies Holdings, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-08-14
Form: 10-Q
Item: Part II, Item 1A
Chunk 140
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Our use of “open source” software could subject our proprietary software to certain disclosure obligations, negatively affect our ability to offer our products and subject us to possible litigation.

 We have used “open source” software in connection with the development and deployment of our software products, and we expect to continue to use open source software in the future. Open source software is licensed by its authors or other third parties under open source licenses, which in some instances may subject us to certain unfavorable conditions, including requirements that we offer the software that incorporates, is based on or that links to the open source software for no cost, that we make publicly available all or part of the source code for any modifications or derivative works we create based upon or that incorporate, link to or otherwise use the open source software, or that we license such modifications or derivative works under the terms of the particular open source license. Additionally, the AI technologies 

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used to develop or write software used operations may be trained on data sets that include open source software or may draw from sources that might subject such software developed using AI technologies to certain license restrictions or other obligations. Additionally, if we decide to use AI technologies to develop or write software in our product offerings the AI may be trained on data sets that include open source software or may draw from sources that might subject such software developed using AI technologies to certain license restrictions or other obligations.

 Companies that incorporate or use open source software in their products have, from time to time, faced claims challenging the use of open source software and compliance with open source license terms. As a result, we could be subject to suits by parties claiming ownership of what we believe to be open source software or claiming noncompliance with open source licensing terms. While we monitor our use of open source software and try to ensure that none is used in a manner that would subject our proprietary software to open source licensing terms (including requiring us to disclose our proprietary source code) or that would otherwise breach the terms of an open source agreement, we cannot guarantee that we will be successful, that all open source software is reviewed prior to use in our products, that our developers have not incorporated open source software into our products that we are unaware of or that they will not do so in the future. Further, use of open source AI technologies poses additional risks relating to the underlying training data sets, including an increased risk in intellectual property infringement or non-compliance with open source license terms as a result of such training data sets potentially derived from data sourced without permission or outside the scope of