57nternet and online technologies, such as automated trading platforms, shopping bots, and Web services, are seen as a stage toward a new technological paradigm, the highly dynamic system (HDS). These are evolving complex, dynamic and data-intensive systems, characterized by autonomous components (agent technologies), constant growth (pervasive and persistency data is collected, stored, and communicated), and dynamic negotiation among representations of multiple participants and stakeholders (with possibly conflicting requirements). In supply chain management systems such as those of retail chains, proto-HDS are evolving to use sensor-enhanced products, packaging, and transportation methods to automatically trigger transactions among participants (such as shelf or warehouse monitoring and repositioning) that are not personally authorized. In contrast with standard shopping, or even online shopping as provided by Peapod.com or Amazon.com, it is the automated and unconscious nature of the new HDS processes' interactions with the parties that raises increasingly challenging legal and social issues. Moreover, providing these services involves processing a large amount of personal or legally relevant data including physical position, personal profile (history of purchases, weekly or current shopping list, family details), shopping cart contents, credit card information, and contact details.Using a process modeling-based approach to address privacy and related legal issues arising in an RFID-based augmented reality shopping situation.
This article presents the current results of the work carried out within a working group of the European Legal Network of lawyers, facilitated by the Free Software Foundation Europe, whose aim is to provide some general guidance to lawyers and developers working with free software to understand the technical and (potentially) legal effects of the interaction or interoperation of two programs in the context of GPLv2 licensing. 1 Keywords GPL; linking; copyright, Free and Open Source Software
InfoThis item is part of the Articles section of IFOSS L. Rev. For more information, please consult the relevant section policies statement. This article has been independently peer-reviewed.The so-called "GPL linking" debate has been raging for the last 18 years, and probably will go on for a quite a few more. It has been seriously considered by legal authors such as, among others, Lawrence Rosen in "Open Source Licensing: Software Freedom and Intellectual Property Law" 1 This article is based on the work carried out in the context of the Software Interactions working group of the Free Software Foundation Europe, of which I am "rapporteur", and takes from the resulting Working Paper on the legal implications of certain forms of Software Interactions (a.k.a linking)", which is available online at . I would like to thank those participating in this work group for their input and feedback, however all opinions and errors made herein are my own. Special thanks go to Neil Brown, Andrew Katz and Martin von Willebrand for their comments on this paper.
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