Volume 2, Issue 2, June 2005 Legal Challenges to Open Source Licences
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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. DOI: 10.2966/scrip.020205.256 © Andres Guadamuz 2005. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.5 Scotland License. * Co-director, AHRC Centre for Studies in IP and Technology Law, University of Edinburgh. (2005) 2:2 SCRIPT-ed 257
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Legal Challenges to Open Source Licences Andrés Guadamuz
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. DOI: 10.2966/scrip.020205.256 © Andres Guadamuz 2005. This work is licensed und...
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