29Jan
Campaign for Clear Licensing Turns its Sights to IBM and SAP
Having shone its spotlight on Oracle’s notoriously complex licensing policies and often adversarial audit practices, the Campaign for Clear Licensing (CCL), a UK-based organization advocating reforms to software-licensing practices, now has shifted its attention to...
20Oct
Autodesk License Alert
One venerable software license model that many companies have utilized in the past has been the license upgrade, under which a licensee could acquire the right to deploy the newest version of a product at...
16Jun
Autodesk Settlement Agreements: Beware Restrictive Superseding License Terms
A software audit typically resolves in one of three ways: a dismissal, a settlement, or litigation. The most common path to resolution is a settlement between the parties for potential copyright infringement stemming from allegedly...
6Feb
Beware IBM Acquisitions and Product Transitions
IBM software licensing can be a very complex knot to untie. While IBM does develop new products in house, many of its most popular offerings (Cognos, Tivoli and ILOG, to name a few) are the...
10Nov
Your Adobe Software May Be Phoning Home Without Your Knowledge
Increasingly, software publishers are looking for new tools and processes to assist them in their license-enforcement programs. While such efforts are understandable to a degree, they sometimes can include methods that are somewhat dubious at...
4Jan
ISVs Must Attend to Customer Agreements
Independent software vendors and other companies that distribute third-party software products as part of their proprietary solutions often are predictably good at capturing core business terms in their customer agreements, carefully defining the products and...
