Liability Risks in Reusing Third-Party Software.

The article focuses on the reuse of software components from third parties in new software applications. The author describes a number of technical and legal challenges related to the reuse of software components. The author describes European Union rules and regulations related to the use of third...

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Publicado en:Communications of the ACM Vol. 49; no. 12; pp. 144 - 145
Autores principales: Hasselbring, Wilhelm, Rohr, Matthias, Taeger, Jürgen, Winteler, Daniel
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Association for Computing Machinery Dec2006
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Sumario:The article focuses on the reuse of software components from third parties in new software applications. The author describes a number of technical and legal challenges related to the reuse of software components. The author describes European Union rules and regulations related to the use of third party software components. Under German law and European Union council directives on product liability, software vendors are responsible for any malfunction of their software, regardless of who manufactured the software component that causes the problem.