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Dulong de Rosnay, Mélanie; Stalder, Felix - In: Internet policy review : journal on internet regulation 9 (2020) 4, pp. 1-22

Commons are holistic social institutions to govern the (re)production of resources, articulated through interrelated legal, socio-cultural, economic and institutional dimensions. They represent a comprehensive and radical approach to organise collective action, placing it "beyond market and...

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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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Open Questions in Open Source : Exploring Incentives, Licensing and Competition

Atal, Vidya - 2018

proprietary competition can influence upstream OSS development under different license regimes …

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Farmers’ Rights and Open Source Licensing

Beck, Ryann - 2011

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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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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Open Science : Open Source Licences in Scientific Research

Guadamuz, Andrés - 2013

The use of non-proprietary software licenses - such as the Free Software (FS) and Open Source Software (OSS) license … works that are being freely shared online. One such project is the OpenContent License (OPL), a collaborative effort that … sets a similar license to the GPL, ensuring that shared works will continue to remain free to subsequent users. A more …

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A License to Kill (Innovation)? Open Source Licenses and Their Implications for Innovation

Tsur, Michal; David, Shay - 2014

This paper examines the implications of Open Source License (OSL) selection on software innovation, and suggests how …-be software innovators. We make an important distinction between initial developers those developers who decide what license will … released under a certain OSL (and are therefore affected by license terms selected by initial developers). This distinction …

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Legal Challenges to Open Source Licences

Guadamuz, Andrés - 2014

This paper will concentrate on presenting a legal analysis of two of the main challenges to open source software: SCO's litigation and software patents. The paper discusses the validity of such challenges, their possible impact to the future of open source software, and the possible legal...

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Open Science : Open Source Licences in Scientific Research

Guadamuz, Andrés - 2013

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Financial Explorer : Open Source Licenses and Analysis of Information

Summerfield, Jason - 2010

This paper contemplates the future relationship between open-source licenses and capital markets, discussing the impact of new media technologies on transparency in finance, with an emphasis on Financial Explorer, a new tool put forth by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission that allows...

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