Legal Issues of Use the Open Source Software for the Development of the Proprietary Software

Student: Rubtsova Ekaterina

Supervisor: Kirill Ryabov

Educational Programme: Civil Law and Commercial Law (Master)

Year of Graduation: 2019

This research is devoted to the consideration of the relevant and controversial issues, relating to the use of the open source software for the development of the proprietary software. The author considers the legal issues of the open source licenses compatibility that can emerge as a result of the usage of more than one open source software for the development of one proprietary software. This research presents a table-guide with an overview of the most common open licenses and recommendations on how to use the appropriate open source software in proprietary software. Special attention is drawn to the analysis of the responsibility for the open licenses violations on the basis of the foreign case law.

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