Contrary to what you may believe, purchasing software rarely means you own it. In reality, the software most often still belongs to the company or developer and what you purchase is a software license ...

Virtualisation sets a number of software-licensing traps for the unwary, but they can largely be avoided through some sensible precautions, says Manek Dubash. IBM was embarrassed after it launched its ...

Open source software (OSS) has become an indispensable element of modern technological ecosystems, enabling global collaboration, rapid innovation and widespread access to cutting‐edge tools. Central ...

Does software have copyright? Even more specifically, is the Internet free inspite of software copyright? Are software programming languages free of cost? How does copyright apply to software? A ...

Software licensing costs are set to fall over the next decade as IT industry trends converge to give buyers more bargaining power. Analyst Gartner predicts vendors will find themselves increasingly ...

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 ...

Software licence agreements are extremely common, particularly in the start-up world. If you’re reading this on a PC or mobile device, you will have entered into an end user licence agreement (EULA) ...

In an open letter, the Campaign for Clear Licensing (CCL) has highlighted the risk to Oracle’s future earnings if it doesn't change its aggressive licensing stance. The letter attacked Oracle’s ...

The district court of Hamburg has ruled against SAP, over its case against a German second-user software license reseller. The court’s decision builds on a 2012 European Court of Justice landmark ...

The Department of Veterans Affairs has work to do in assessing its software licenses, the Government Accountability Office said in a report that included four other new priority recommendations to the ...