소프트웨어의 버그(bug)에 대한 法的 責任-使用許諾契約書의 免責條項을 中心으로-

Abstract

Recently through the development of internet and supply of computers, softwares have been used very much in order to operate computer system, and therefore the problems due to bugs of software are increasing in our society. Generally we can see the software license agreement in the package software if we bought the computer program. In the license, the privileges and the escaping responsibility clauses against bugs of software are written by maker of the computer software. By the way, these escaping resposibility clauses are written under the disadvantage to customer (user) in general. Thus the study on the legal liabilities of the maker's software bug is very needed right now, and this article is written for the purpose. I made a try to look into the concept of software bug and the civil liability at the chap. 2, kinds of software license and the legal character at the chap.3, the escaping responsibility clauses of software license agreement at the chap.4 in this article. In addition, I introduced the legal liability under Uniform Computer Information Transaction Act(UCITA) in the U.S. at the chap.5. Conclusively, I investigated whether or not we could make a law such as the UCITA in Korea at the chap. 6.