What price freedom (of software)?: A guide for Australian legal practitioners on open source licensing

James Scheibner

doi:10.3316/ielapa.789458802998611

What price freedom (of software)? A guide for Australian legal practitioners on open source licensing

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Intellectual property lawyers will no doubt be familiar with software licensing agreements. These licence agreements control the use and reproduction of software through a combination of contract law, copyright and trade secrecy. Where the method implemented by the software is novel, inventive and useful, patent rights may also be involved. For the most part, these agreements will entail exclusive rights vesting in a developer, a team of developers or the software distributor. This is typically referred to as a proprietary licence.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	39-42
Number of pages	4
Journal	Precedent (Sydney, N.S.W.)
Issue number	139
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3316/ielapa.789458802998611
Publication status	Published - Mar 2017
Externally published	Yes

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Intellectual property
Software licensing agreements
Open source software

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