Legal issues with Free Software

This section is intended to provide general information about software licensing and the different existing Free Software licenses. If you are interested in more precise advise on how to release a product under a Free Software license, please reach out to FSFE’s Legal Team.

To go further:

• What is software licensing
• Building Legal infrastructure for your Free Software project
• Legal documentation assembled by FSFE Legal Team
• Does rooting your device (e.g. an Android phone) and replacing its operating system with something else void your statutory warranty, if you are a consumer?
• How the European patent system works