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Financial Explorer : Open Source Licenses and Analysis of Information
Summerfield, Jason - 2010
This paper contemplates the future relationship between open-source licenses and capital markets, discussing the impact of new media technologies on transparency in finance, with an emphasis on Financial Explorer, a new tool put forth by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission that allows...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013138799
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012837117
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012708746
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Patent Commons, Thickets, and Open Source Software Entry by Start-Up Firms
Wen, Wen - 2015
based on an OSS license. The marginal impact of The Commons on OSS entry is increasing in the cumulativeness of innovation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013035131
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Patent Commons, Thickets, and Open Source Software Entry by Start-Up Firms
Wen, Wen - 2013
based on an OSS license. The marginal impact of The Commons on OSS entry is increasing in the cumulativeness of innovation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012459267
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014220275
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014147447
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Book Review : Gene Patents and Collaborative Licensing Models: Patent Pools, Clearinghouses, Open Source Models and Liability Regimes (Ed. Geertrui Van Overwalle)
Anderson, Jonas - 2017
A review of Gene Patents and Collaborative Licensing Models: Patent Pools, Clearinghouses, Open Source Models and Liability Regimes. The typically esoteric world of patents has recently been thrust into the headlines as cases involving patented genes have received an unprecedented amount of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014148116
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Too Many Open Source Licenses! But Do the Existing Licenses Adequately Encompass the Diverse Needs and Concerns of Particular Stakeholders?
Skidmore, Darren - 2014
available, in the Open Source Software license weltanschauung. However there are arguments for the need to add to the suite of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014056541
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A License to Kill (Innovation)? Open Source Licenses and Their Implications for Innovation
Tsur, Michal; David, Shay - 2014
This paper examines the implications of Open Source License (OSL) selection on software innovation, and suggests how …-be software innovators. We make an important distinction between initial developers those developers who decide what license will … released under a certain OSL (and are therefore affected by license terms selected by initial developers). This distinction …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014060876