Open source for business a practical guide to open source software licensing
โ Scribed by Heather Meeker
- Year
- 2020
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 361
- Edition
- Third
- Category
- Library
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
โฆ Table of Contents
Preface
Part I: Foundation
1. The Philosophy of Free and Open Source Software
2. A Tutorial on Computer Software
Part II: Basic Open Source Theory and Compliance
2. Common Open Source Licenses
4. License Compatibility
5. Conditional Licensing
6. What Is Distribution?
7. Notice Requirements
Part III: Advanced Compliance
8. The GPL 2 Border Dispute
9. LGPL 2.1 Compliance
10. GPL 3 and Affero GPL 3
11. Open Source Policies
12. Audits and Due Diligence
Part IV: Intersection with Patents and Trademarks
13. Open Source and Patents (Grants, Defensive Termination)
14. Open Source and Patent Litigation Strategy
15. Trademarks
Part V: Contributions and Code Releases
16. Open Source Releases
Part VI: Additional Topics
17. Mergers & Acquisitions and Other Transactions
18. Government Regulation
19. Enforcement and Obstacles to Enforcement
20. Open Standards and Open Source
21. Open Hardware and Data
22. Recent Developments: Commercial Open Source, Source Available Licensing, and Ethos Licensing
E-Book, Forms, and Checklists
Glossary and Index
Case Index
About the Author
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