An analysis of interoperability between licenses

Abstract

The emergence of different licenses has led to problems with the smooth flow of digital content across them. To activate digital content distribution, license interoperability must be revealed. In this paper, we present a framework for formally examining license interoperability by using many-sorted first-order logic. We show how the framework can be used to formalize three actual licenses and examine the interoperability between them. The results show that the framework reveals the relationship between licenses.