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Europe Discusses Free Software Licenses
axelm writes "Two studies on legal issues concerning free software matters were published last week: One is written by German law professor G. Spindler from Göttingen, http://www.vsi.de/inhalte/aktuell/studie_final.pdf . The other has been published in the most precious french law review, Dalloz 2003, p. 1556. Both discuss mainly critical aspects of European copyright and contract law. The German Institute for Legal Research on Free and Open Source Software (http://www.ifross.de) answers some of the arosen questions and concludes that legal security for Open Source is still given in German and Europe." -
Europe Discusses Free Software Licenses
axelm writes "Two studies on legal issues concerning free software matters were published last week: One is written by German law professor G. Spindler from Göttingen, http://www.vsi.de/inhalte/aktuell/studie_final.pdf . The other has been published in the most precious french law review, Dalloz 2003, p. 1556. Both discuss mainly critical aspects of European copyright and contract law. The German Institute for Legal Research on Free and Open Source Software (http://www.ifross.de) answers some of the arosen questions and concludes that legal security for Open Source is still given in German and Europe." -
Pick A License, Any (Open Source) License
Till Jaeger writes "ifrOSS has published its new license center in English. This is probably the most extensive license list of Free software/Open Source and Open Content licenses on the web. They are labelled in accordance with the respective legal characteristics as licenses without copyleft effect, licenses with strong copyleft effect, licenses with limited copyleft effect, licenses with restricted options and licenses with privileges. ifrOSS (Institute for legal questions of Free and Open Source Software) is a private research institute working in all questions related to Free Software and Copyright law." -
Pick A License, Any (Open Source) License
Till Jaeger writes "ifrOSS has published its new license center in English. This is probably the most extensive license list of Free software/Open Source and Open Content licenses on the web. They are labelled in accordance with the respective legal characteristics as licenses without copyleft effect, licenses with strong copyleft effect, licenses with limited copyleft effect, licenses with restricted options and licenses with privileges. ifrOSS (Institute for legal questions of Free and Open Source Software) is a private research institute working in all questions related to Free Software and Copyright law."