| Open Source and Free Software Licensing |
| By Andrew M. St. Laurent |
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| Publisher | : O'Reilly |
| Pub Date | : August 2004 |
| ISBN | : 0-596-00581-4 |
| Pages | : 208 |
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| Copyright |
| | | Preface |
| | | | Audience |
| | | | Organization |
| | | | Conventions Used in This Book |
| | | | Comments and Questions |
| | | | Acknowledgments |
| | | Chapter 1. Open Source Licensing, Contract, and Copyright Law |
| | | | Section 1.1. Basic Principles of Copyright Law |
| | | | Section 1.2. Contract and Copyright |
| | | | Section 1.3. Open Source Software Licensing |
| | | | Section 1.4. Issues with Copyrights and Patents |
| | | | Section 1.5. The Open Source Definition |
| | | | Section 1.6. Warranties |
| | | Chapter 2. The MIT, BSD, Apache, and Academic Free Licenses |
| | | | Section 2.1. The MIT (or X) License |
| | | | Section 2.2. The BSD License |
| | | | Section 2.3. The Apache License, v1.1 and v2.0 |
| | | | Section 2.4. The Academic Free License |
| | | | Section 2.5. Application and Philosophy |
| | | Chapter 3. The GPL, LGPL, and Mozilla Licenses |
| | | | Section 3.1. GNU General Public License |
| | | | Section 3.2. GNU Lesser General Public License |
| | | | Section 3.3. The Mozilla Public License 1.1 (MPL 1.1) |
| | | | Section 3.4. Application and Philosophy |
| | | Chapter 4. Qt, Artistic, and Creative Commons Licenses |
| | | | Section 4.1. The Q Public License |
| | | | Section 4.2. Artistic License (Perl) |
| | | | Section 4.3. Creative Commons Licenses |
| | | Chapter 5. Non-Open Source Licenses |
| | | | Section 5.1. Classic Proprietary License |
| | | | Section 5.2. Sun Community Source License |
| | | | Section 5.3. Microsoft Shared Source Initiative |
| | | Chapter 6. Legal Impacts of Open Source and Free Software Licensing |
| | | | Section 6.1. Entering Contracts |
| | | | Section 6.2. Statutory Developments Related to Software Contracts |
| | | | Section 6.3. The Self-Enforcing Nature of Open Source and Free Software Licenses |
| | | | Section 6.4. The Global Scope of Open Source and Free Software Licensing |
| | | | Section 6.5. The "Negative Effects" of Open Source and Free Software Licensing |
| | | | Section 6.6. Community Enforcement of Open Source and Free Software Licenses |
| | | | Section 6.7. Compatible and Incompatible Licensing: Multiple and Cross Licensing |
| | | Chapter 7. Software Development Using Open Source and Free Software Licenses |
| | | | Section 7.1. Models of Open Source and Free Software Development |
| | | | Section 7.2. Forking |
| | | | Section 7.3. Choosing an Open Source or Free Software License |
| | | | Section 7.4. Drafting Open Source Licenses |
| | | Appendix A. Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivs License |
| | | | Creative Commons Legal Code |
| | | Colophon |
| | | Index |
