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Intellectual Property Law

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Free software licensing & Software as a Service

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Brendan Scott, a leading open source lawyer, has produced a useful analysis of the legal issues to do with free software licensing as applied to "Software as a Service" (SAAS).

SAAS is the term often used for web-based applications (e.g. Google Docs), although those of us who already suffer acronym overload prefer the more plain-English "online service".

Brendan makes some interesting observations. In summary:

"The thrust of the argument is that the manner in which a SAAS model is implemented using FOSS might determine whether or not the implementation is legal/licensed. Conversely it may provide a means for businesses to ?monetize? open source applications if they control sufficient copyrights (although probably not possible with software under GPL v3)."

The analysis is based on Australian law, and it would be good to see the same exercise applied to the law of other jurisdictions (and no, we're not volunteering just at this moment!)

Have a good weekend

Full post as published by IMPACT on April 04, 2008 (boomark / email).

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