This thesis aims to provide clues on how software developers could use and distribute proprietary software and open … source software to run their business smoothly.Proprietary software is protected by copyright and/or patent that confers the … rightholders exclusive rights for the use of their software. The developers of proprietary software use their exclusive rights to …

Open Source Software is often viewed as an anti-intellectual property regime. In contrast, we argue how intellectual … between developers, distributors and end-users are based on copyright law. The proliferation of software patents can, however … be seen as a threat for the development and deployment of open source software. We present the nature of the threat and …

Perspectives, 19 (2), Spring, 99-120 -- Justin Pappas Johnson (2002), 'Open Source Software: Private Provision of a Public Good …

Open source software and the movement behind it, the Open Source Software Movement unknown to many has been in … existence since long. Discussed in the article is this concept with relevance to the software industry. The US statutes on … sourcing, which have turned out to be the buzzwords in the computer software industry are also brought into limelight. A look …

The paper attempts to elaborate on the open source licensing of the software and the legal status of the open source …