The use of non-proprietary software licenses - such as the Free Software (FS) and Open Source Software (OSS) license models - is definitely on the increase, showing that the open development models are viable and sometime even commercially successful systems. Amongst these models, one of the...

This paper will concentrate on presenting a legal analysis of two of the main challenges to open source software: SCO's litigation and software patents. The paper discusses the validity of such challenges, their possible impact to the future of open source software, and the possible legal...

The use of non-proprietary software licenses - such as the Free Software (FS) and Open Source Software (OSS) license models - is definitely on the increase, showing that the open development models are viable and sometime even commercially successful systems. Amongst these models, one of the...