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Launch of First International FOSS Law Review

Posted by kdawson on from the peer-reviewed-copyleft dept.

Graeme West writes "A group of tech lawyers has announced the release of the inaugural issue of the International Free and Open Source Software Law Review (IFOSS L. Rev.) — a place for high-level discussion of issues and best practice in the implementation of FOSS. You can view the announcement, or skip straight to Volume 1, Issue 1. A downloadable PDF file is also available. The journal is open access, and articles are CC licensed."

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  1. Re:International? More like Commonwealth and US by gwest · · Score: 4, Informative
    I'm an editorial coordinator for IFOSS L. Rev. (and the submitter of this story), so I thought I should point out a couple of things.

    The paper seem to focus on case law.

    Actually, there's only one case law report in the journal. Out of the main articles, only Lawrence Rosen's article could be said to rely primarily on case law.

    Yeah, I know that even something that only involves two countries could be called "international"

    If you take a look at the current make-up of the Editorial Committee, you'll see that it is truly international. The Committee works on a rotating basis, so it'll always have a diverse make-up.