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Title: The calm before the storm? Legal challenges to open source licences
Authors: González, Andrés Guadamuz
Keywords: open source licences, open source, software patents, legal challenge, FUD, fear uncertainty doubt
Abstract: 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.
Licence: Creative Commons, non-commercial, attributive
Issue Date: Jun-2005
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/2038/1537
bibliographicCitation: Proceedings of the First International Conference on Open Source Systems (OSS 2005), pp. 215-219, Genova, 11th-15th July 2005
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