Title :
Software Licensing: A Classification and Case Study
Author :
Manoharan, Sathiamoorthy ; Wu, Jesse
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Sci., Univ. of Auckland, Auckland
Abstract :
Software licensing schemes are controls put in software to grant or deny the use of the software. It plays an important part in the distribution and the control of software. This paper reviews some of the technologies behind software licensing schemes and presents a classification and a case study.
Keywords :
industrial property; software control; software distribution; software licensing; Computer crime; Computer industry; Computer science; Costs; Law; Legged locomotion; Licenses; Software measurement; Software testing; Terminology;
Conference_Titel :
Digital Society, 2007. ICDS '07. First International Conference on the
Conference_Location :
Guadeloupe
Electronic_ISBN :
0-7695-2760-4
DOI :
10.1109/ICDS.2007.38
