Here's a common problem: A company executes a form commercial software license agreement without fully understanding the terms and use restrictions related to the product being licensed. When the ...

The traditional commercial software license has, for a long time, come in two flavors. With the advent of Software-as-a-Service, licenses are changing for the better. There is the standard End-user ...

In an earlier article, I examined some of the recent dynamics in open source software, specifically around the for-own-profit commercialization of some projects by large cloud providers, and how that ...

Get the latest federal technology news delivered to your inbox. In their work discussing the history of software licensing, intellectual property scholars Michael L. Rustad and Maria Vittoria Onufrio ...

Black Duck Software on Wednesday released its 2017 Open Source Security and Risk Analysis, detailing significant cross-industry risks related to open source vulnerabilities and license compliance ...

This is a guide to how to license research software. It collects together the advice we give to researchers on how to license research software. It is not exhaustive. Please get in touch if you think ...

I think as an industry, we need to agree on a few standard software licenses.<BR><BR><BR>In the open source world, everyone uses one of a few standard licenses. When you're looking for software to ...