오픈 소스 소프트웨어의 법적 문제에 대한 검토

Abstract

By 2011 estimation of Korean IDC, the 2010’s scale of open source software(OSS) in the domestic market reached about 15 billions won. Furthermore, the scale of domestic IT market is expected to grow about 21.5billion won. Though we can use this OSS freely. we are careful to the use of OSS. Because if we uncarefully use OSS, we can violate the OSS license and the intellectual right law. Therefore, I will study on the content of OSS license. If we are not observe this license, I can predict the fact that many disputes occur. Then, I will inspire on the legal problem of OSS. Firstly, I think that OSS is the second intellectual goods and joint intellectual goods. But I will doubt about the fact of intellectual goods related on the business. On the this point, we will study carefully. Secondly, Who are the owner of the intellectual right? It is obvious that Orignal intellectual right holder and secondary intellectual right holder etc are the intellectual right owner. But I think that the OSS community is not the intellectual right holder. But I think that OSS community need to go to court for the orignal holder and secondary holder, etc. Thirdly, in case of infringement on the intellectual right of OSS, A programer, seller, end-user etc become the counter party of lawsuit. But related on the seller and end-user, in spite of they having no ideas on the fact of infringement on the intellectual right, they must have responsibility on the infringement on the intellectual right, unconditionally. But I think that I need to interpret their responsibility restrictively. And lastly, I believed the facts that joint tort can be formed in relation to on the OSS. But I think that it is difficult to specify the one who act the joint tort.