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Lerner, Josh - 2002

This paper is an initial exploration of the determinants of open source license choice. It first enumerates the various … presents an empirical analysis of the determinants of license choice using the Source Forge database, a compilation of nearly …

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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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Patent vs. Open Source : A Classroom Activity Using Texas Hold’em Poker

Picault, Julien - 2020

This classroom experiment introduces students to the various incentives that influence private companies when they invest in technology, including investments that only benefit the investing company (patent) and investments benefiting all companies (open source). The game Texas Hold'em Poker is...

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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 : Utilising Open Source Software in the Formal Standard-Setting Context

Li, Jingze - 2019

found that the current IPR frameworks, including the FRAND license commitment for patented technologies and copyright rules …

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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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Standardization, Open Source, and Innovation : Sketching the Effect of IPR Policies

Husovec, Martin - 2018

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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Understanding Open Source and Free Software Licensing Mechanism : A Close Review of the Alternative Approach to Traditional Notions of Software Licensing

Manteghi, Maryna - 2017

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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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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The Price of Free Software : Information Costs and the Free Software Foundation's General Public License

Lotan, Karni - 2014

license that manifested the core objectives of the Free Software Foundation (“FSF”). This segment that adopted the open source …

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