Licensing services: formal analysis and implementation

  • Authors:

  • G. R. Gangadharan;Vincenzo D'Andrea

  • Affiliations:

  • Department of Information and Communication Technology, University of Trento, Trento, Italy;Department of Information and Communication Technology, University of Trento, Trento, Italy

  • Venue:
  • ICSOC'06 Proceedings of the 4th international conference on Service-Oriented Computing
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

The distribution of services spanning across organizational boundaries raises problems related to intellectual value that are less explored in service oriented research. Being a way to manage the rights between service consumers and service providers, licenses are critical to be considered in services. As the nature of services differs significantly from traditional software and components, services prevent the direct adoption of software and component licenses. We propose a formalisation of licensing clauses specific to services for unambiguous definition of a license. We extend Open Digital Rights Language to implement the clauses of service licensing, making a service license compatible with all the existing service standards.