| Exploiting Ontology for Software License Agreements |
| Received:July 15, 2009 Revised:March 21, 2010 Download PDF |
| Muhammad Asfand-e-yar,Amin Anjomshoaa,Edgar R. Weippl,A Min Tjoa. Exploiting Ontology for Software License Agreements. International Journal of Software and Informatics, 2010,4(1):89~100 |
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| Abstract:Software end-users need to sign licenses to seal an agreement with the product
providers. Habitually, users agree with the license (i.e. terms and conditions) without fully
understanding the agreement. To address this issue, an ontological model is developed to
formulate the user requirements and license agreements formally. This paper, introduces
ontological model that includes the abstract license ontology of common features found in
di?erent license agreements. The abstract license ontology is then extended to a few real
world license agreements. The resulting model can be used for di?erent purposes such as
querying the appropriate licenses for a speciˉc requirement or checking the license terms and
conditions with user requirements. |
| keywords:software license agreement ontology semantic Web |
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