Fiduciary License Agreement
The Fiduciary License Agreement (dt. Fiduciary License Agreement ), short FLA called, is an agreement between the holder of a copyright and a trustee . It regulates the transfer of individual rights of use from the author to the trustee.
The purpose of the fiduciary license agreement is to bundle the common interests of a large number of authors with the trustee. The FLA was developed by the Free Software Foundation Europe and the Institute for Legal Issues in Free and Open Source Software in 2003. It is used in the field of software licensing .
background
The possibilities of using software are determined by a license that the author of the software ( licensor ) grants to the user of the software ( licensee ). If the license is violated, the licensor can enforce his rights in court.
In contrast to proprietary software, free software projects often have several authors, i.e. several rights holders. This leads to obstacles with regard to the enforceability of legal claims, since usually every co-author would have to participate in the proceedings. In order to enable effective legal enforcement, the rights of use of each individual author are bundled with the trustee. This then pursues the legal interests of the author.
See also
Web links
- "What is the FLA?" , Explanation by the Freedom Task Force of the Free Software Foundation Europe.
- "To trusty hands" (PDF file), article by Axel Metzger, co-developer of the FLA, in Linux-Magazin . (83 kB)
- Institute for Legal Issues in Free and Open Source Software
- Free Software Foundation Europe
- Freedom Task Force
Individual evidence
- ↑ Axel Metzger : In loyal hands . In: Linux-Magazin , Vol. 8 (2003), Heft 5, S. 75, ISSN 1432-640X PDF file ( Memento of the original from July 14, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
