Open source licensing : software freedom and intellectual property law / Lawrence Rosen.
"Open source initiative general counsel Lawrence Rosen presents a plain-English guide to open source law for developers, managers, users, and lawyers. Rosen clearly explains the intellectual property laws that support open source licensing, carefully reviews today's leading licenses, and h...
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Upper Saddle River, NJ :
Prentice Hall PTR,
[2005]
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Table of Contents:
- Ch. 1. Freedom and open source
- Ch. 2. Intellectual property
- Ch. 3. Distribution of software
- Ch. 4. Taxonomy of licenses
- Ch. 5. Academic licenses
- Ch. 6. Reciprocity and the GPL
- Ch. 7. The Mozilla public license (MPL)
- Ch. 8. The common public license (CPL)
- Ch. 9. The OSL and the AFL
- Ch. 10. Choosing an open source license
- Ch. 11. Shared source, eventual source, and other licensing models
- Ch. 12. Open source litigation
- Ch. 13. Open standards.