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A review of Gene Patents and Collaborative Licensing Models: Patent Pools, Clearinghouses, Open Source Models and Liability Regimes. The typically esoteric world of patents has recently been thrust into the headlines as cases involving patented genes have received an unprecedented amount of...
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Private-collective business models that involve both private investment incentives and the production of public goods are not well understood. This empirically oriented research uses a unique data from the software industries of five European countries (Finland, Germany, Italy, Portugal and...
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available, in the Open Source Software license weltanschauung. However there are arguments for the need to add to the suite of …
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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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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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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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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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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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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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them to comply with the resulting license obligations or not …
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