[cryptonector]

You always have to go through Legal at $WORK, for any serious $WORK. That's because $WORK can't let you 'infect' proprietary code with copyleft code, for example. Typically there will be a list of licenses that require no further approval to use in your work at $WORK, and for everything else you need to ask Legal.

For non-commercial work you do on your own there's really no real limits on what open source you take and use, and that's great, yeah.