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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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Intellectual Property Licensing Tensions : In Utilizing Open Source Software in the Formal Standard Setting Context - The Case of Apache V.2 in ETSI As a Start

Li, Jingze - 2018

rights, mainly the FRAND license commitment for patented technologies and copyright guidelines for software in specifications …

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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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Integrating Open Source into De Jure Standardization : Beyond a Call for the Appropriate License

Ferrandis, Carlos Muñoz - 2018

For many years the unprecedented innovation in the telecommunications technology has been possible thanks to the work done in standard development organizations (SDOs). Such success is mainly owed to the fact that SDOs have managed to attract many participants from different business models 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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Sensible Open Source Licenses For Standards Development Organizations

Herman, Michele - 2020

the applicable software is licensed under a license that does not meet the requirements of the OSD. As OSS has become more … using an OSS license tailored to the intended use of the software being developed nor to their unique goals. Rather, by … default, SDOs most often select a common OSI-approved license for their OSS projects.SDOs have long balanced the rights and …

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