Covers the legal implications of open source and free software licensing and the intellectual property laws that support open source licensing.
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Foreward by Lawrence Lessig.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Freedom and Open source Intellectual property Distribution of software Taxonomy of licenses Academic licenses Reciprocity and the GPL The Mozilla public license (MPL) The common public license (CPL) The OSL and the AFL Choosing an Open source license Shared source, eventual source, and other licensing models Open source litigation Open standards The Open source paradigm.