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

could pose for the copyright protection of computer software, are also considered …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 …

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

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