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Understanding Open Source and Free Software Licensing

ISBN: 0596005814
EAN: 2147483647

Year: 2003
Pages: 78

Authors: Andrew M. St. Laurent

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• Open Source and Free Software Licensing
• Table of Contents
• Copyright
• Preface
• Audience
• Organization
• Conventions Used in This Book
• Comments and Questions
• Acknowledgments
• Chapter 1. Open Source Licensing, Contract, and Copyright Law
• 1.1 Basic Principles of 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
• Chapter 2. The MIT, BSD, Apache, and Academic Free Licenses
• 2.1 The MIT (or X) License
• 2.2 The BSD License
• 2.3 The Apache License, v1.1 and v2.0
• 2.4 The Academic Free License
• 2.5 Application and Philosophy
• Chapter 3. The GPL, LGPL, and Mozilla Licenses
• 3.1 GNU General Public License
• 3.2 GNU Lesser General Public License
• 3.3 The Mozilla Public License 1.1 (MPL 1.1)
• 3.4 Application and Philosophy
• Chapter 4. Qt, Artistic, and Creative Commons Licenses
• 4.1 The Q Public License
• 4.2 Artistic License (Perl)
• 4.3 Creative Commons Licenses
• Chapter 5. Non-Open Source Licenses
• 5.1 Classic Proprietary License
• 5.2 Sun Community Source License
• 5.3 Microsoft Shared Source Initiative
• Chapter 6. Legal Impacts of Open Source and Free Software Licensing
• 6.1 Entering Contracts
• 6.2 Statutory Developments Related to Software Contracts
• 6.3 The Self-Enforcing Nature of Open Source and Free Software Licenses
• 6.4 The Global Scope of Open Source and Free Software Licensing
• 6.5 The
• 6.6 Community Enforcement of Open Source and Free Software Licenses
• 6.7 Compatible and Incompatible Licensing: Multiple and Cross Licensing
• Chapter 7. Software Development Using Open Source and Free Software Licenses
• 7.1 Models of Open Source and Free Software Development
• 7.2 Forking
• 7.3 Choosing an Open Source or Free Software License
• 7.4 Drafting Open Source Licenses
• Appendix A. Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivs License
• Creative Commons Legal Code
• Colophon
• Index
• index_A
• index_B
• index_C
• index_D
• index_E
• index_F
• index_G
• index_H
• index_I
• index_J
• index_K
• index_L
• index_M
• index_N
• index_O
• index_P
• index_Q
• index_R
• index_S
• index_T
• index_U
• index_V
• index_W
• index_X