Understanding open source and free software licensing /

If you've held back from developing open source or free software projects because you don't understand the implications of the various licenses, you're not alone. Many developers believe in releasing their software freely, but have hesitated to do so because they're concerned abo...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: St. Laurent, Andrew M.
Formato: eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Beijing ; Sebastopol, California : O'Reilly, [2004]
Edición:First edition.
Temas:
Computer software industry > Licenses.
Copyright > Computer programs.
Free computer software > Law and legislation.
Open source software > Law and legislation.
Droit d'auteur > Logiciels.
Computer software industry > Licenses
Copyright > Computer programs
Free computer software > Law and legislation
Open source software > Law and legislation
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Understanding Open Source and Free Software Licensing; Organization; Conventions Used in This Book; Comments and Questions; Acknowledgments; 1. Open Source Licensing, Contract, and Copyright Law; 1.2. Contract and Copyright; 1.3. Open Source Software Licensing; 1.4. Issues with Copyrights and Patents; 1.5. The Open Source Definition; 1.6. Warranties; 2. The MIT, BSD, Apache, and Academic Free Licenses; 2.2. The BSD License; 2.3. The Apache License, v1.1 and v2.0; 2.3.2. The Apache License, v2.0; 2.4. The Academic Free License; 2.5. Application and Philosophy
  • 3. The GPL, LGPL, and Mozilla Licenses3.2. GNU Lesser General Public License; 3.3. The Mozilla Public License 1.1 (MPL 1.1); 3.4. Application and Philosophy; 3.4.2. The Mozilla Public License: Circumstances and Opportunities; 4. Qt, Artistic, and Creative Commons Licenses; 4.2. Artistic License (Perl); 4.3. Creative Commons Licenses; 5. Non-Open Source Licenses; 5.2. Sun Community Source License; 5.3. Microsoft Shared Source Initiative; 6. Legal Impacts of Open Source and Free Software Licensing; 6.2. Statutory Developments Related to Software Contracts
  • 6.3. The Self-Enforcing Nature of Open Source and Free Software Licenses6.4. The Global Scope of Open Source and Free Software Licensing; 6.5. The ""Negative Effects"" of Open Source and Free Software Licensing; 6.6. Community Enforcement of Open Source and Free Software Licenses; 6.7. Compatible and Incompatible Licensing: Multiple and Cross Licensing; 7. Software Development Using Open Source and Free Software Licenses; 7.2. Forking; 7.3. Choosing an Open Source or Free Software License; 7.4. Drafting Open Source Licenses; A. Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivs License; Colophon

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