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Competition Among Proprietary and Open-Source Software Firms : The Role of Licensing on Strategic Contribution

August, Terrence - 2020

and prices are endogenously determined in equilibrium, (ii) how license restrictiveness impacts equilibrium investments … and the quality of offerings, and (iii) how license restrictiveness affects consumer surplus and social welfare. Although … restrictive license instead encourages greater effort from the OSS contributor, leads to higher OSS quality, and provides a larger …

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Dual Licensing in Open Source Software Industry

Valimaki, Mikko - 2014

This paper analyses how several open source companies use dual licensing: both open source and proprietary licenses for one product. Three case studies based on the experiences of companies Sleepycat Software Inc., MySQL AB, and TrollTech AS illustrate the issue. Especially the legal and...

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Open Source Licensing in Mixed Markets, or Why Open Source Software Does Not Succeed

Gaudeul, Alexia - 2013

may choose liberal license terms such as those of the Berkeley Software Distribution as proprietary developers will then … may use more restrictive license terms such as the General Public License to discourage proprietary appropriation of her …

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Open Source, Dual Licensing and Software Competition

Darmon, Eric; Torre, Dominique - 2014

To distribute software, commercial vendors of proprietary software have the opportunity to use some dual licensing (DL) strategy i.e. to provide their software under two different licensing terms (proprietary and open source). We investigate the relevance and impacts of this distribution...

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Open Science : Open Source Licences in Scientific Research

Guadamuz, Andrés - 2013

The use of non-proprietary software licenses - such as the Free Software (FS) and Open Source Software (OSS) license … works that are being freely shared online. One such project is the OpenContent License (OPL), a collaborative effort that … sets a similar license to the GPL, ensuring that shared works will continue to remain free to subsequent users. A more …

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Legal Challenges to Open Source Licences

Guadamuz, Andrés - 2014

This paper will concentrate on presenting a legal analysis of two of the main challenges to open source software: SCO's litigation and software patents. The paper discusses the validity of such challenges, their possible impact to the future of open source software, and the possible legal...

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