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Open Source Licensing: Software Freedom and Intellectual Property Law
By Lawrence  Rosen
 
Publisher : Prentice Hall PTR
Pub Date : July 22, 2004
ISBN : 0-13-148787-6
Pages : 432
 


      Copyright
      Acknowledgments
      Foreword
      Preamble
        Chapter 1.   Freedom and Open Source
        The Language of Freedom
        Defining Open Source
        Open Source Principles
        Chapter 2.   Intellectual Property
        Dominion Over Property
        Right Brain and Left Brain
        Acquiring Copyrights and Patents
        Original Works of Authorship
        Works Made for Hire
        Exclusive Rights of Copyright and Patent Owners
        Copies
        Exceptions to the Exclusive Right to Make Copies
        Collective and Derivative Works
        The Chain of Title for Copyright
        The Chain of Title for Patents
        Joint Works
        Assigning Ownership
        Duration of Copyright and Patent
        Trademarks
        Exceptions to Intellectual Property Protection
        Chapter 3.   Distribution of Software
        Contributors and Distributors
        Distribution
        Open Source Collaboration
        Contributor Agreements
        What about Users?
        Chapter 4.   Taxonomy of Licenses
        What Is a License?
        Bare Licenses
        Licenses as Contracts
        Patent Licenses
        Template Licenses
        Types of Open Source Licenses
        Chapter 5.   Academic Licenses
        The BSD Gift of Freedom
        BSD License as Template
        The BSD License Grant
        Source and Binary Forms of Code
        Conditions under the BSD
        Warranty and Liability Disclaimer
        The MIT License
        The Right to Sublicense
        The Warranty of Noninfringement
        The Apache License
        Protecting Trademarks
        The Apache Contributor License Agreement
        The Artistic License
        License Preambles
        When Amateurs Write Licenses
        Big Picture of Academic Licenses
        Apache License Version 2.0
        Chapter 6.   Reciprocity and the GPL
        The GPL Bargain
        Copyleft and Reciprocity
        Policy Objectives
        The Preamble to the GPL
        GPL as Template
        The GPL Applies to Programs
        Linking to GPL Software
        Copyright Law and Linking
        The LGPL Alternative
        GPL Grant of License
        Access to Source Code
        "At No Charge"
        Other Obligations in the GPL
        The GPL and Patents
        Accepting the GPL
        Chapter 7.   The Mozilla Public License (MPL)
        The Mozilla Story
        The MPL Reciprocity Bargain
        Contributors and Modifications
        The MPL and Patents
        Defending Against Patents
        Other Important MPL License Provisions
        Other Corporate Licenses
        Chapter 8.   The Common Public License (CPL)
        CPL as a Template
        A Digression about Well-Written Licenses
        Grant of Copyright and Patent Licenses
        Reciprocity under the CPL
        Exception to Reciprocity
        Patent Defense
        Defend and Indemnify
        Ownership of the CPL License
        Chapter 9.   The OSL and the AFL
        Academic or Reciprocal?
        Initial Paragraph of OSL/AFL
        1. Grant of Copyright License
        2. Grant of Patent License
        3. Grant of Source Code License
        4. Exclusions from License Grant
        5. External Deployment
        6. Attribution Rights
        7. Warranty of Provenance and Disclaimer of Warranty
        8. Limitation of Liability
        9. Acceptance and Termination
        10. Termination for Patent Action
        11. Jurisdiction, Venue, and Governing Law
        12. Attorneys' Fees
        13. Miscellaneous
        14. Definition of "You" in This License
        15. Right to Use
        Copyright and Licensing Notice
        Chapter 10.   Choosing an Open Source License
        How Licenses Are Chosen
        The Free-Rider Problem
        Making Money from Open Source
        In-Licensing
        Out-Licensing
        Contributions to Projects
        License Compatibility for Collective Works
        License Compatibility for Derivative Works
        Relicensing
        Chapter 11.   Shared Source, Eventual Source, and Other Licensing Models
        Alternatives to Open Source
        Shared Source
        Public Source
        Dual and Multiple Licensing
        Eventual Source and Scheduled Licensing
        Combining Licensing Models
        Chapter 12.   Open Source Litigation
        Owning a Cause of Action
        Damages
        Injunctions
        Standing to Sue
        Burden of Proof
        Enforcing the Terms of a Contract
        Disputes over Ownership of Intellectual Property
        Disputes over Derivative Works
        Patent Infringement Litigation
        SCO vs. Open Source
        Chapter 13.   Open Standards
        Defining Open Standards
        Open Specifications
        Enforcing the Standard by Copyright Restrictions
        Licensing the Test Suite: The Open Group License
        Discouraging Forks: Sun's SISSL
        Patents on Open Standards
        Reasonable and Nondiscriminatory
        Royalty Free
        The W3C Patent License
        Justifying Open Standards and Open Source
        The Open Source Paradigm
        Appendices
        BSD License
        MIT License
        Apache License
        The Apache Contributor License Agreement
        Artistic License
        General Public License (GPL)
        Lesser General Public License (LGPL)
        Mozilla Public License (MPL)
        Common Public License (CPL)
        Open Software License (OSL) and Academic Free License (AFL)
        Licensed under the Open Software License version 2.0
        About the Author
      Index
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Open Source Licensing. Software Freedom and Intellectual Property Law
Open Source Licensing: Software Freedom and Intellectual Property Law
ISBN: 0131487876
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2004
Pages: 166

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