Open Source Licensing Software Freedom and Intellectual Property Law
, by Rosen, Lawrence
- ISBN: 9780131487871 | 0131487876
- Cover: Paperback
- Copyright: 7/22/2004
Understand the legal foundations of Open Source licenses -and why SCO's politically charged attack on Linux and the GPL is doomed to fail.
Lawrence Rosen is an attorney specializing in technology and a computer professional who has taught programming and managed several computer departments at Stanford University. He is currently general counsel and secretary of Open Source Initiative (OSI), formerly served as its executive director, and has written several major open source licenses
| Foreword | xv | ||||
| Preamble | xix | ||||
| Chapter 1 Freedom and Open Source | 1 | (12) | |||
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| Chapter 2 Intellectual Property | 13 | (28) | |||
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| Chapter 3 Distribution of Software | 41 | (10) | |||
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| Chapter 4 Taxonomy of Licenses | 51 | (22) | |||
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| Chapter 5 Academic Licenses | 73 | (30) | |||
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| Chapter 6 Reciprocity and the GPL | 103 | (38) | |||
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| Chapter 7 The Mozilla Public License (MPL) | 141 | (20) | |||
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| Chapter 8 The Common Public License (CPL) | 161 | (18) | |||
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| Chapter 9 The OSL and the AFL | 179 | (50) | |||
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| Chapter 10 Choosing an Open Source License | 229 | (26) | |||
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| Chapter 11 Shared Source, Eventual Source, and Other Licensing Models | 255 | (14) | |||
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| Chapter 12 Open Source Litigation | 269 | (26) | |||
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| Chapter 13 Open Standards | 295 | (18) | |||
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| The Open Source Paradigm | 313 | (2) | |||
| Appendices | 315 | (70) | |||
| Index | 385 | (12) | |||
| About the Author | 397 |
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