The Open Source Alternative
Understanding Risks and Leveraging Opportunities
(Sprache: Englisch)
This book is a user manual for understanding and deployment of open source software licensing in business. Written for lawyers and businesspeople alike, it explains and analyzes open source licensing issues, and gives practical suggestions on how to deal...
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This book is a user manual for understanding and deployment of open source software licensing in business. Written for lawyers and businesspeople alike, it explains and analyzes open source licensing issues, and gives practical suggestions on how to deal with open source licensing in a business context.
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A practical guide to leveraging open source in businessThe law of open source is complex and constantly changing. Some legal issues related to it are thorny and undecided. Those called upon to make decisions about open source have found little information to guide them in traditional legal materials . . . until now. Author Heather Meeker-voted one of the top thirty intellectual property lawyers in California-brings her ten years of extensive involvement in open source legal issues to bear in The Open Source Alternative-a practical resource to help you implement open source intelligently, without compromising the value of your intellectual property or stepping into a potential lawsuit.
Written in plain English for both lawyers and professionals, The Open Source Alternative provides an accessible discussion of the different licensing strategies to consider with open source. This invaluable reference tool for CIOs, CFOs, IT managers, auditors, and attorneys, as well as all interested professionals, provides you with the background and tools you need to understand this area of law and develop your own conclusions and best practices. Divided into two parts-leveraging opportunities and understanding risks-the book explores: the rules of the road for use of open source in proprietary products, assessing legal risk of using open source, how to understand and leverage patents and trademarks in the open source landscape, and developing policies for use of open source in your business.
Formulating best practices in open source development requires familiarity with a complex set of facts and industry practices, as well as the political, business, and legal principles behind them. The Open Source Alternative is a must-read for any professional who needs to stay on top of this rapidly changing field.
Inhaltsverzeichnis zu „The Open Source Alternative “
Chapter 1. Introduction: How UNIX Gave Birth to Linux, and a New Software Paradigm.Chapter 2. Free Software and Open Source.
Chapter 3. Common Open Source Licenses and their Structure.
Chapter 4. Due Diligence, License Proliferation and Compatibility.
Chapter 5. Audits and Compliance Initiatives.
Chapter 6. Notice Requirements.
Chapter 7. Patents and open source.
Chapter 8. Trademarks and open source.
Chapter 9. Open Source and Open Standards.
Chapter 10. Developing a Corporate Open Source Policy.
Chapter 11. Open Source Code Releases.
Chapter 12. Technical Background: Operating System Kernels, User Space, and Elements of Programming.
Chapter 13. Enforcement of open source licenses.
Chapter 14. The Border Dispute of GPL2.
Chapter 15. License or Contract?
Chapter 16. Defining Distribution.
Chapter 17. Open Source in M&A and Other Transactions.
Chapter 18. GPL Version 3.0 (GPL3).
Chapter 19. LGPL Version 3.0 (LGPL3).
Appendix A. Open Source Development Agreement.
Autoren-Porträt von Heather J. Meeker
Heather J. Meeker is a shareholder at Greenberg Traurig, LLP, one of the largest law firms in the United States. Heather has provided open source counseling to clients ranging from technology startups using open source in product development, to public technology companies conducting open source code releases, to venture capitalists assessing new business models in the software industry. She also serves as an adjunct professor at the U.C. Berkeley School of Law, is a member of the American Law Institute, and in 2005, was selected by the Daily Journal as one of the top thirty intellectual property lawyers in California.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Heather J. Meeker
- 2008, 1. Auflage, 304 Seiten, Maße: 23,7 cm, Gebunden, Englisch
- Verlag: Wiley & Sons
- ISBN-10: 0470194952
- ISBN-13: 9780470194959
- Erscheinungsdatum: 22.04.2008
Sprache:
Englisch
Pressezitat
"In her book, Heather Meeker does a good job describing the "border dispute" of the Copyleft provision in the GPL" ( ccsblog , March 16th, 2009) "So I would say, this is the book to read, for a good account of the legal aspects surrounding open source." ( dw2 o.com , 7/6/08)
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