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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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found that the current IPR frameworks, including the FRAND license commitment for patented technologies and copyright rules …
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The article examines how open source licensing model has changed the way of exploitation of intellectual property in the software industry. The article analyzes the OSS tendency in general, provides historical background, indicates main differences between OSS and public domain software and...
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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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movements. It explains the GPL and discusses attempts to enforce the GPL. The GPL is a revolutionary copyright license that has … to enforce the license in court. A district court in Munich, Germany declared the GPL valid and enforceable. Meanwhile …
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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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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 Source if and only if its distribution terms [i.e. the license] comply with the set of criteria defined by the Open … license choice and project characteristics (Lerner and Tirole, 2002a), at present we are not aware of surveys that collect … shortcoming. We examine the license choice of the firms that supply Open Source products and services and relate it to their …
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We examine bidding behaviour of individuals and teams in an experimental auction resembling UMTS-license auctions. Even …
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