Tech Watch

Autores/as

  • Adriaan de Groot Vice President of Legal Affairs, KDE

Palabras clave:

Law, information technology, Free and Open Source Software, Bacula, Fiduciary Licence Agreement, Copyright, Copyright consolidation,

Resumen

IFOSS L. Rev's Tech Watch section aims to allow technical experts and organisational leaders in Free and Open Source Software to introduce and explain topical issues with important legal aspects. These discussions may form the basis of subsequent detailed examination by IFOSS L. Rev. contributors.
This issue, KDE Vice President of Legal Affairs Adriaan de Groot reviews some of the issues presently confronting community software authors: copyright consolidation, making a living from coding, and 'doing legal stuff right'.

Biografía del autor/a

  • Adriaan de Groot, Vice President of Legal Affairs, KDE
    Adriaan de Groot is a researcher in software quality and verification; his Free Software efforts are confined to the KDE project, where he has the title Vice-President of Legal Affairs. His byline for developers is "I talk to lawyers so you don't have to." In this column, he writes for lawyers about what is going on in the trenches of Free Software development.
IFOSS L. Rev. Volume 1, Issue 1 cover

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Publicado

2009-05-20

Número

Vol. 1 Núm. 1 (2009)

Sección

Tech Watch

Licencia

The most restrictive licence we will accept for submission is Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 international (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) SPDX identifier CC-BY-4.0

Cómo citar

Tech Watch. (2009). Journal of Open Law, Technology & Society, 1(1), 49-52. https://www.jolts.world/index.php/jolts/article/view/12