Open source licensing notices in Web applications

Auteurs-es

  • Arnoud Engelfriet ICTRecht legal services

Mots-clés :

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

Résumé

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.

Biographie de l'auteur-e

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

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Publié

2011-09-14

Numéro

Vol. 3 No. 1 (2011)

Rubrique

Articles

Licence

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

Comment citer

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