Understanding Open Source and Free Software Licensing: Guide to Navigating Licensing Issues in Existing & New Software"O'Reilly Media, Inc.", 2004. gada 16. aug. - 208 lappuses If you've held back from developing open source or free software projects because you don't understand the implications of the various licenses, you're not alone. Many developers believe in releasing their software freely, but have hesitated to do so because they're concerned about losing control over their software. Licensing issues are complicated, and both the facts and fallacies you hear word-of-mouth can add to the confusion.Understanding Open Source and Free Software Licensing helps you make sense of the different options available to you. This concise guide focuses on annotated licenses, offering an in-depth explanation of how they compare and interoperate, and how license choices affect project possibilities. Written in clear language that you don't have to be a lawyer to understand, the book answers such questions as: What rights am I giving up? How will my use of OS/FS licensing affect future users or future developers? Does a particular use of this software--such as combining it with proprietary software--leave me vulnerable to lawsuits?Following a quick look at copyright law, contracts, and the definition of "open source," the book tackles the spectrum of licensing, including:
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... permit their works to reach a broad audience, and, incidentally, to make some sort of living from making works, cre- ators are required to surrender all, or substantially all, of the rights granted by copy- right to those entities that ...
... permitting both open distribution and open modification , the removal of the second type of limitation is probably ... permit the development and distribution of derivative works , open source licensing makes possible three substantial ...
... permit non-exclusive commercial exploitation of the licensed work, must make available the work's source code, and must permit the creation of derivative works from the work itself. Each of these prin- ciples is expressed in the Open ...
... permits , but does not require , the imposition of a generational limitation ( such as copyleft ) by the license . As will be made clear in the next chapter , such a generational limitation , even if present in a particular license ...
... permit distri- bution of software built from modified source code. The license may require derived works to carry a different name or version number from the original software. This is a permissive, not a mandatory, part of the ...
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Qt Artistic and Creative Commons Licenses | 85 |
NonOpen Source Licenses | 114 |
Legal Impacts of Open Source and Free Software Licensing | 147 |
Software Development Using Open Source and Free Software Licenses | 164 |
Creative Commons Attribution NoDerivs License | 179 |
Index | 185 |
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Understanding Open Source and Free Software Licensing: Guide to Navigating ... Andrew M. St. Laurent Ierobežota priekšskatīšana - 2004 |
Understanding Open Source and Free Software Licensing Andrew M. St. Laurent Ierobežota priekšskatīšana - 2004 |