Open source law, policy and practice / edited by Amanda Brock.
This book examines various policies, including the legal and commercial aspects of the Open Source phenomenon. Here, 'Open Source' is adopted as convenient shorthand for a collection of diverse users and communities, whose differences can be as great as their similarities. The common threa...
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| Format: | Ebook |
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| Language: | English |
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Oxford :
Oxford University Press,
2022.
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| Edition: | 2nd ed. |
| Series: | Oxford Academic.
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| Online Access: | Oxford Scholarship Online |
| Summary: | This book examines various policies, including the legal and commercial aspects of the Open Source phenomenon. Here, 'Open Source' is adopted as convenient shorthand for a collection of diverse users and communities, whose differences can be as great as their similarities. The common thread is their reliance on, and use of, law and legal mechanisms to govern the source code they write, use, and distribute. The central fact of open source is that maintaining control over source code relies on the existence and efficacy of intellectual property ('IP') laws, particularly copyright law. Copyright law is the primary statutory tool that achieves the end of openness, although implemented through private law arrangements at varying points within the software supply chain. This dependent relationship is itself a cause of concern for some philosophically in favour of 'open', with some predicting (or hoping) that the free software movement will bring about the end of copyright as a means for protecting software. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (568 pages). |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 0198862342 9780198862345 0191894893 9780191894893 0192606867 9780192606860 0192606875 9780192606877 |