Open source licensing notices in Web applications

Autor(i)

  • Arnoud Engelfriet ICTRecht legal services

Ključne riječi:

Law, information technology, Free and Open Source Software, Web applications

Sažetak

More and more applications are moving to the Web. Often, such applications present a combination of client- and server-side code. Almost all FOSS licenses require an explicit notice in the code regarding the license applicability and sometimes even the entire license text. However, for Web applications this approach can add significant performance penalties.  In this article I discuss the theory and practice of various approaches towards this issue.

Biografija autora

  • Arnoud Engelfriet, ICTRecht legal services
    IT-lawyer, blogger and patent attorney.
    Associate at ICTRecht legal services.

Preuzimanja

Objavljeno

2011-09-14

Broj časopisa

Svezak 3 Br. 1 (2011)

Rubrika

Articles

Licenca

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

Kako citirati

Open source licensing notices in Web applications. (2011). Journal of Open Law, Technology & Society, 3(1), 81-90. https://www.jolts.world/index.php/jolts/article/view/47