Optimized Software Licensing – Combining License Types in a License Portfolio

Overreaching Provisions in Software License Agreements

The Public License Selector: 
Making Open Licensing Easier

Researchers in Natural Language Processing rely on availability of data and software, ideally under open licenses, but little is done to actively encourage it. In fact, the current Copyright framework grants exclusive rights to authors to copy their works, make them available to the public and make derivative works (such as annotated language corpora). Moreover, in the EU databases are protecte...

Software License Management with Smart Cards

This paper describes public-key protocols for binding software licenses to tamper-resistant smart cards, for transferring licenses between cards, and for purchasing them on-line. The protocols support software distribution both through retail stores and over the Internet. The user can transfer licenses from several cards onto a single card to avoid juggling between several cards in the reader. ...

Evaluation of Activation Based Software License Enforcement

Software piracy, software licensing and license control are all important issues to software developers. Small software developers did not have access to a system available to control a number of installations of licensed software products. A company could obtain a single license and use in among the network, or there could be a breach of security allowing multiple users to use fully licensed s...

Goal-aware Analysis of Software License Risks

Open Source Software (OSS) components are characterised by heterogeneous licenses that give the possibility to use, modify and often redistribute the source code. Their adoption meets several adopter’s needs, such as cost reduction, standards alignment, and so on. However, often OSS projects retain several different (or missing) licenses for the various components and files, which raise risks o...