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Open source legality patterns: architectural design decisions motivated by legal concerns

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Imed Hammouda,

Tommi Mikkonen,

Ville Oksanen,

Ari JaaksiAuthors Info & Claims

MindTrek '10: Proceedings of the 14th International Academic MindTrek Conference: Envisioning Future Media Environments

Pages 207 - 214

https://doi.org/10.1145/1930488.1930533

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Complications emerge when various open source software components, governed by different licenses, are used in the same software system. For various reasons, these licenses introduce different privileges and requirements on the use and distribution of composed code, and are therefore often fundamentally incompatible with each other when combined arbitrarily. Consequently the way the different components can be integrated requires attention at the level of software architecture. In this paper, we introduce open source legality patterns -- architectural design decisions motivated by legal concerns associated with open source licensing issues and licenses themselves. Towards the end of the paper, we also review some related work and discuss why it is important to create common guidelines for designs that mix and match different open source systems and proprietary software, and provide directions for future work.

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Open source legality patterns: architectural design decisions motivated by legal concerns
1. Social and professional topics
  1. Computing / technology policy
    1. Intellectual property
      1. Copyrights
      2. Licensing
2. Software and its engineering
  1. Software notations and tools
    1. General programming languages
      1. Language features
        Modules / packages
        Patterns
    2. Software libraries and repositories
  2. Software organization and properties
    1. Software system structures
      1. Distributed systems organizing principles
        Client-server architectures
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DOI:10.1145/1930488

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