@conference {657, title = {Legal issues for free and open source software in government}, booktitle = {OSS2007: Open Source Development, Adoption and Innovation (IFIP 2.13)}, series = {IFIP International Federation for Information Processing }, volume = {234/2007}, year = {2007}, month = {2007///}, pages = {353 - 354}, publisher = {Springer}, organization = {Springer}, chapter = {41}, abstract = {As more governments begin to adopt and release free and open source software, it is important to be able to readily recognise and identify the associated legal risks and potential liabilities. This panel will examine and discuss the most common of these associated risks and liabilities. These issues include, but are not limited to: indemnities against claims of intellectual property infringement from third parties requirements of consumer protection and antitrust legislation obligations to redistribute source, and when they arise enforceability of free software licences layering and combining of licences dual-licensing licence incompatibility software patent liability contemporary developments in software licensing }, issn = {978-0-387-72485-0}, doi = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-72486-7_41}, attachments = {https://flosshub.org/sites/flosshub.org/files/Legal\%20Issues\%20for\%20Free\%20and\%20OSS.pdf}, author = {Nic Suzor and Fitzgerald, Brian and Perry, Mark} }