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Open Source Licensing Software Freedom and Intellectual Property Law
by Lawrence Rosen
with a foreword by Lawrence Lessig
This book was published by Prentice Hall in July 2004.
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This book is available online under the Academic Free License version 3.0. Links to the individual chapters are shown below.
- Front matter
- Preamble
- Chapter 1:Freedom and Open Source
- Chapter 2:Intellectual Property
- Chapter 3:Distribution of Software
- Chapter 4:Taxonomy of Licenses
- Chapter 5:Academic Licenses
- Chapter 6:Reciprocity and the GPL
- Chapter 7: The Mozilla Public License (MPL)
- Chapter 8:The Common Public License (CPL)
- Chapter 9:The OSL and the AFL
- Chapter 10:Choosing an Open Source License
- Chapter 11:Shared Source, Eventual Source, and Other Licensing Models
- Chapter 12:Open Source Litigation
- Chapter 13:Open Standards
- The Open Source Paradigm
- Appendices