%0 Journal Article %T Legal Challenges to Open Source Licences %A Andr¨¦s Guadamuz Gonz¨¢lez %J SCRIPT-ed %D 2005 %I AHRC Research Centre for Studies in Intellectual Property and Technology Law %X This paper will concentrate on presenting a legal analysis of two of the main challenges to open source software: SCO¡¯s litigation and software patents. The paper discusses the validity of such challenges, their possible impact to the future of open source software, and the possible legal defences used against them. %U http://www.law.ed.ac.uk/ahrb/script-ed/vol2-2/challenges.asp