The Constitutional Accountability for Open Standards
Author | Felix Greve |
Position | German Lawyer |
Pages | 45-58 |
Felix Greve a
(a) German Lawyer
DOI: 10.5033/ifosslr.v8i1.110
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About the author
Felix Greve is a German lawyer primarily specialised on the intersection of IT and law. Besides IT-
Law he mainly focuses on topics related to commercial law in general. During the past *ve years he
has worked as a company lawyer for a globally operating transport logistics organisation, which is
located in Hamburg, Germany.
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Licence and Attribution
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International Free and Open Source Software Law Review, 8(1), pp. 45 – 58
DOI: 10.5033/ifosslr.v8i1.110
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