Open Source Licensing: Software Freedom and Intellectual Property Law
Open Source Licensing: Software Freedom and Intellectual Property Law
ISBN: 0131487876
EAN: 2147483647
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2004
Pages: 166
Pages: 166
Authors: Lawrence Rosen
- Open Source Licensing: Software Freedom and Intellectual Property Law
- Table of Contents
- 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 OSLAFL
- 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
- 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
- Appendix. 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
Open Source Licensing: Software Freedom and Intellectual Property Law
ISBN: 0131487876
EAN: 2147483647
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2004
Pages: 166
Pages: 166
Authors: Lawrence Rosen