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source licenses. Second, the MDY Trio’s method of delineating between contractual covenants and license conditions will …’s test for determining whether a transaction is a license or first sale that better fits open source licenses. The article … also proposes a more effective approach to distinguishing between contractual covenants and license conditions by focusing …
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Open Source Software is often viewed as an anti-intellectual property regime. In contrast, we argue how intellectual property law is at the heart of open source model since licenses that organize the innovation and business relationships between developers, distributors and end-users are based...
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The TRIPS treaty requires that WTO members offer patent or sui generis protections for plant life. Yet, many developing countries oppose intellectual property for plant life because, for those nations, plant IP has proven to be financially, environmentally, and socially detrimental. The...
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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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software industry. We analyze data from 73 Finnish OSS companies' product type (i.e. proprietary vs. OSS product) and license … OS licenses. Moreover, the market trends concerning a firm's software products affect the license type decisions of the …-copyleft license, we find that servers are more likely to be licensed under the non-copyleft license. Our estimation results further …
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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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This paper tries to explore the mechanism of the choices of Open Source Software (OSS) Licenses. The benignant licensor choose between the restrictive and permissive licenses by considering how the commercial contributor reacts to the choice of OSS licenses to make the OSS project best supported...
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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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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 and standardization can be described as two ‘stewards of innovation' (Kapos 2017). Although practically two different ecosystems with a diverging set of rules and objectives, they, however, meet in their purpose to push the frontier of innovation. The latest technological...
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