Publication of Second Issue - International Free and Open Source Software Law Review

The editorial committee of IFOSSLR has published their second issue.

One of the articles touches very closely open source compliance: Richard Kemp wrote Towards Free/Libre Open Source Software (“FLOSS”) Governance in the Organisation. I can recommend this article to everyone considering how to implement open source governance at their organisation: it explains different views to governance and how these can be used as building blocks for a corporate open source governance strategy. The article gives concrete examples of these documents.

The whole issue is available at: http://www.ifosslr.org/ifosslr/issue/view/2.

Students reviewed open source licenses - with a patent focus

Co-operation of Universities and a Law Firm

A collection of analyses of open source licenses was made as a part of final studies of law students in Helsinki University, Swedish School of Economics in Helsinki, University of Turku and IPR University Center. The analyses review licenses from the perspective of business use with a focus on patent terms.

The project was carried out as a group work lead by a law firm expert. The collections of analyses (in Finnish only) can be freely downloaded from os.hhpartners.fi. The law firm partner in the project was HH Partners, Attorneys-at-law Ltd.