I am often asked to draft or review software license agreements. Some are basic and some are more complex. What is surprising to me is the willingness in the market to turn to a legal expert named ...

Move over, free software. Step aside, today's open-source licenses. Software distributed under an "enhanced source" license released this week will be legally prohibited from censoring or spying on ...

Cisco has created a software licensing agreement for use across its product areas, including collaboration, security, and infrastructure products. In addition to streamlining the licensing process, ...

Software providers, asset managers, and licensees can consider various strategies to help assess risk and effectively negotiate software license compliance disputes. Software is the heartbeat of every ...

Service to negotiate contracts for site-licensed software and administer the distribution to the campus, including programs such as SUNY ITEC. UB makes available links to contracted vendors for ...

It may be obvious that software publishers and their customers need protections related to use of the software. What may not be as intuitive to the end users is that they must review the ...

The more things change, the more they stay the same. Keeping track of software licenses and contracts that permit their use is not a new problem for IT managers. Software asset management (SAM) has ...

U.S. agreements are not easily transferable and translatable to foreign markets with little or no change to license agreements, marketing styles, methods of distribution, and the like. This covers a ...

In a decision published last week, Appeals of CiyaSoft Corp., ASBCA Nos. 59519, 59913, the Armed Services Board of Contract Appeals (ASBCA) held for the first time that the Government may be bound by ...

As reaffirmed by the U.S. Supreme Court in 2012, federal courts must acknowledge the supremacy of federal law that favors arbitration. See Nitro-Lift Technologies v. Howard, 568 U.S. 17 (2012). In ...

Maybe it was a slow news day. Tiger was in rehab. The Salahis were before U.S. congressional hearings, hiding behind the Fifth Amendment. Whatever. I was installing a tool chain and actually read the ...

I have a small hobby business that I use for contracting and licensing an ecommerce plugin that I wrote a number of years ago. Typically a customer will purchase a license key for $40 and use the ...