Open Source Licensing : Building Business and Cooperation with Open Source Intellectual Property

by Hackvan, Stig

• ISBN13: 9781565925601
• ISBN10: 1565925602
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-05-01
• Publisher: Oreilly & Associates Inc

Summary

From individual developers to major corporations looking to harness the power of open-source development, eachmust struggle to find the right licensing scheme to further their interests. "Open Source Licensing cuts through the ideology and the hype to distill key Open Source licensesdown to their essence. Working from interviews with key developers andlicense originators like Larry Wall and L. Peter Deutsch, Stig Hackvanapplies his own analysis to trace the logical relations between licenses and the evolutionary history behind licenses."Open Source Licensing covers the full spectrum of Open Source license options, from the Berkeley License to the GNU Public License; from older licenses like the X Window License to recent innovations like the MozillaPublic License and the Sun Community Source License.Some of the licenses covered include: Berkeley License, Apache License, Artistic License, Aladdin Public License, GNU Public License, Library GNUPublic License, Netscape Public License, Mozilla Public License, SunCommunity Source License, Apple Public License.