Toward a Reform of the Defense Department Software Acquisition Policy.

Abstract

The Software Licensing Project (SLP) team of hte Software Engineering Institute (SEI) was created to study legal issues related to the government's acquisition policy with respect to software and data rights. In conducting its research, a primary focus of the SLP has been the government's problems in structuring licensing arrangements for maintaining and enhancing software, that is, in obtaining sufficient rights in and documentation about software to be able to perform in-house maintenance and enhancement, or to achieve completion for maintenance contracts. To understand the context within which maintenance and enhancement problems have arisen, the project undertook a broad investigation of the government's software acquisition policy. In the course of this investigation, we were made aware of a wide range of software licensing problems being experienced by the government. This report reflects this broad investigation of the DoD's software acquisition policy.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Apr 01, 1986
Accession Number
ADA169705

Entities

People

  • Pamela Samuelson

Organizations

  • Carnegie Mellon University

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Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Human Systems
  • Space
  • Weapons Technologies

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  • Application Software
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  • Data Rights
  • Employment
  • Government Procurement
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  • Intellectual Property
  • Law
  • Software Development
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  • Computer science

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  • Software Engineering.
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