Abstract

 Frye, Emily    Open-Source Licensing Issues: Legal Infrastructure and National Security   

Open-Source Licensing Issues: Legal Infrastructure and National Security

Abstract

Changing models of software development are already affecting competitive interests, both in the United States and abroad. Important players on the national scene continue to frame positions about the economic impact of these developments. To date, however, the debate has left unaddressed another of the critical implications of open-source development: the relationship between open-source licensing structures and national security. Open-Source Licensing and National Security will take the debate beyond economics and create a framework of issues that will need to be addressed in order to understand the implications of licensing structures for national security. >