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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …