期刊名称:International Free and Open Source Software Law Review
印刷版ISSN:1877-6922
出版年度:2014
卷号:6
期号:1
页码:61-68
DOI:10.5033/ifosslr.v6i1.103
语种:English
出版社:International Free and Open Source Software Law Review
摘要:Under German copyright law, rights of use cannot be granted for so-called unknown types of use. Software-as-a-Service (hereinafter: “SaaS”) is a use considered to be unknown until the mid 1990s. When taking the law in a literal sense, Free and Open Source Software (hereinafter: “FOSS”) licenses granted before then thus cannot grant the rights of use necessary for SaaS, meaning that some FOSS cannot be lawfully made available via SaaS under German copyright law.
关键词:copyright law;copyright law; FOSS; Free and Open Source Software; Software licensing; unknown type of use