Intellectual Property and Open Source: A Practical Guide to Protecting Code"O'Reilly Media, Inc.", 2008. gada 15. jūl. - 386 lappuses "Clear, correct, and deep, this is a welcome addition to discussions of law and computing for anyone -- even lawyers!"-- Lawrence Lessig, Professor of Law at Stanford Law School and founder of the Stanford Center for Internet and Society If you work in information technology, intellectual property is central to your job -- but dealing with the complexities of the legal system can be mind-boggling. This book is for anyone who wants to understand how the legal system deals with intellectual property rights for code and other content. You'll get a clear look at intellectual property issues from a developer's point of view, including practical advice about situations you're likely to encounter. Written by an intellectual property attorney who is also a programmer, Intellectual Property and Open Source helps you understand patents, copyrights, trademarks, trade secrets, and licenses, with special focus on the issues surrounding open source development and the GPL. This book answers questions such as:
Most legal sources are too scattered, too arcane, and too hard to read. Intellectual Property and Open Source is a friendly, easy-to-follow overview of the law that programmers, system administrators, graphic designers, and many others will find essential. |
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1.5. rezultāts no 85.
... allows individually distinguishable cases to coalesce into recognizable and useful principles. Generally following these principles should help to guide your understanding and keep you out of trouble. If specific legal issues do arise ...
... allow other people to use copyrighted materials without the consent of the copyright owner. Copyright law is applicable to software as a non-dramatic literary work. Although copyright law does not cover purely functional expressions ...
... allows us to share the products of our thinking. Once a person has paid the cost of creation, however, the economic cost of a second person using that knowledge moves down to essentially zero. The SSL libraries used to encrypt HTTP ...
... allows us to share our secrets while still controlling how they are used. The bargain The price that inventors and authors pay for receiving exclusive control over their knowledge is that control is only granted for a limited period ...
... allow individuals to be compensated for the costs and risks inherent in knowledge creation, and second, to balance ... allowing private markets to allocate the appropriate resources to knowledge creation. The rights granted under IP law ...
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Chapter 4 Copyright | 71 |
Chapter 5 Trademarks | 103 |
Chapter 6 Trade Secrets | 119 |
Chapter 7 Contracts and Licenses | 133 |
Chapter 8 The Economic and Legal Foundations of Open Source Software | 153 |
Appendix B Open Source License List | 281 |
Appendix C Free Software License List | 285 |
Appendix D Fedora License List and GPL Compatibility | 289 |
Appendix E Public Domain Declaration | 299 |
Appendix F The Simplified BSD License | 301 |
Appendix G The Apache License Version 20 | 303 |
Appendix H The Mozilla Public License Version 11 | 309 |
Appendix I The GNU Lesser General Public License Version 21 | 319 |
Chapter 9 So I Have an Idea | 179 |
Chapter 10 Choosing a License | 197 |
Chapter 11 Accepting Patches and Contributions | 215 |
Chapter 12 Working with the GPL | 223 |
Chapter 13 Reverse Engineering | 239 |
Chapter 14 Incorporating As a NonProfit | 253 |
Appendix A Sample Proprietary Information Agreement PIA | 271 |
Appendix J The GNU Lesser General Public License Version 3 | 329 |
Appendix K The GNU General Public License Version 2 June 1991 | 333 |
Appendix L The GNU General Public License Version 3 June 2007 | 341 |
Appendix M The Open Software License Version 30 | 355 |
Index | 359 |
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Intellectual Property and Open Source: A Practical Guide to Protecting Code Van Lindberg Ierobežota priekšskatīšana - 2008 |