Abstract
Software licensing and licensing of digital information in general create a regime of information governance for the Internet and beyond. This Article proposes to describe how this regime works—or fails to work—in legal terms.
Disciplines
Computer Law | Intellectual Property
Date of this Version
May 2005
Recommended Citation
Michael J. Madison, "The Legitimacy of Open Source and Other Software Licenses" (May 2005). University of Pittsburgh School of Law Working Paper Series. Working Paper 15.
http://law.bepress.com/pittlwps/art15
Comments
This article is a condensed and slightly modified version of Michael J. Madison, Reconstructing the Software License, 35 Loy. U. Chi. L.J. 275 (2003). It was commissioned to appear in the Journal of Internet Law (2005).