Building up of a Centre of Expertise on Open source (FEDER-CELLaVI)

Duration

2008-2013

Keywords

Intellectual property, licence, free software, open source, Floss, Foss, copyright, patent, computer law.

Description

The project is an initiative aiming at setting up an expertise center specialised in Free/ Open Source software for industrial use. The CRID will analyse the legal frame of open source licensing and conduct some research on precise recurrent issues. It will follow up the project by backing the Walloon industry which faces FLOSS licensing legal issues.

Research unit(s)

• Law researchs (DDR)
• Research Center on IT and Law (CRID)
• (CRIDS)
• PReCISE Research Center (PRECISE)

Research theme(s)

• Intellectual Property

Staff

Contracts

• Union européenne