Software Agreements: Software Licence Agreement \\\\ SaaS Agreement

When drafting a software contract it is important to understand the specifications and use of the technology in question, otherwise the client and the lawyer will not get it right and this will result in a poorly drafted software agreement.

Very often we see lawyers providing clients with a SaaS agreement which is in fact a software licence agreement. This is due to the lack of clarity and understanding of the technology behind the software and how this is used by the end user.

Let's look at the key differences between the traditional software licence agreement and a SaaS agreement before we analyse further the legal terms that are distinctive for these two different software agreements.