License Agreements used in Distribution of Machine Learning Software Packages

Abstract

Recently, consideration of the issues of legal regulation of artificial intelligence has become increasingly relevant. Most legal works are devoted to the study of responsibility of a legal personality that arises or does not arise from activities involving the use of artificial intelligence. However, for developers of the relevant software, the issue of intellectual property protection, namely, exclusive rights to computer programs, is more interesting. In particular, the types of licenses under which open source software products (such as MIT, GPL, BSD, Apach), their main characteristics, disadvantages and advantages are of interest. Of particular interest is the legal regulation of such license agreements in the context of cross-border turnover of software packages, as well as the existence of the open source concept. In addition, in order to dive deeper into the subject area of the study, the paper discusses basic concepts from the theory of machine learning.