Legal Challenges to Open Source Licences

Created by Stuart Yeates (University of Oxford) on July 19, 2005

"Legal Challenges to Open Source Licences" by Andrés Guadamuz González appears in the latest SCRIPT-ed

"This paper will concentrate on presenting a legal analysis of two of the main challenges to Open Source software: SCO's litigation and software patents. The paper discusses the validity of such challenges, their possible impact to the future of open source software, and the possible legal defences used against them."

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		Legal Challenges to Open Source Licences Created by Stuart Yeates (University of Oxford) on July 19, 2005 "Legal Challenges to Open Source Licences" by Andrés Guadamuz González appears in the latest SCRIPT-ed "This paper will concentrate on presenting a legal analysis of two of the main challenges to Open Source software: SCO's litigation and software patents. The paper discusses the validity of such challenges, their possible impact to the future of open source software, and the possible legal defences used against them." tags: osswatch opensource uk legal patents intellectualpropertyrights ipr Blog (WebLog) \| Open Source \| Policy and Law Stuart's blog Login or register to post comments 4645 reads
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