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.
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Chapter 1: Freedom and Open Source
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Chapter 2: Intellectual Property
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Chapter 3: Distribution of Software
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Chapter 4: Taxonomy of Licenses
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Chapter 5: Academic Licenses
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Chapter 6: Reciprocity and the GPL
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Chapter 7: The Mozilla Public License (MPL)
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Chapter 8: The Common Public License (CPL)
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Chapter 9: The OSL and the AFL
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Chapter 10: Choosing an Open Source License
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Chapter 11: Shared Source, Eventual Source, and Other Licensing Models
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Chapter 12: Open Source Litigation
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Chapter 13: Open Standards