Understanding Open Source and Free Software Licensing
Understanding Open Source and Free Software Licensing
ISBN: 0596005814
EAN: 2147483647
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2003
Pages: 78
Pages: 78
Authors: Andrew M. St. Laurent
- 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
Understanding Open Source and Free Software Licensing
ISBN: 0596005814
EAN: 2147483647
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2003
Pages: 78
Pages: 78
Authors: Andrew M. St. Laurent