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Legal Issues with FOS-ERP: A UK Law Perspective

Legal Issues with FOS-ERP: A UK Law Perspective
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Author(s): Sam De Silva (Manches LLP, UK)
Copyright: 2012
Pages: 14
Source title: Free and Open Source Enterprise Resource Planning: Systems and Strategies
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Rogerio Atem de Carvalho (Instituto Federal Fluminense, Brazil)and Björn Johansson (Lund University, Sweden)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-61350-486-4.ch007

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Abstract

Whilst there are numerous benefits for a business from procuring a ERP on the basis of FOS licensing terms, there are a number of legal risks which need to be considered. These legal risks include: (a) assuming all FOS licences are the same; (b) uncertainty as to the enforceability of FOS licences; (c) lack of clarity in relation to the legal characterisation of FOS licences; (d) risk of poor performance; (e) risk of IPR infringement claim; (f) issues arsing from reciprocity; (g) legal challenges to FOS licences; and (h) the issues arising from the missing contractual provisions. The chapter outlines these legal risks and provides recommendations as to how to mange such risks.

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