Lecture, 2012

Risques juridiques liés à l'utilisation de logiciels libres : revue de jurisprudence

Summary

Presentation given on 20 April 2012 on the legal risks of using free and open source software, through a review of case law. It addresses the questions most often raised, such as whether a free licence is valid and enforceable and whether it has been breached, the first court case in 2004 and the actions brought by Harald Welte, cases where a free licence was argued to be invalid, and free content beyond software.

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