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Intellectual property and open source / Van Lindberg.

Title
Intellectual property and open source / Van Lindberg.
Author
Lindberg, Van.
Publication
Sebastopol, CA : O'Reilly, c2008.

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Description
xv, 371 p. : ill., forms; 24 cm.
Summary
Written by an intellectual property attorney who is also a programmer, Intellectual Property and Open Source helps you understand patents, copyrights, trademarks, trade secrets, and licenses, with special focus on the issues surrounding open source development and the GPL. --from publisher description.
Subjects
Note
  • Includes index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
The economic and legal foundations of intellectual property -- The patent document -- The patent system -- Copyright -- Trademarks -- Trade secrets -- Contracts and licenses -- The economic and legal foundations of open source software -- So I have an idea-- -- Choosing a license -- Accepting patches and contributions -- Working with GPL -- Reverse engineering -- Incorporating as a non-profit -- Appendices: Sample proprietary information agreement (PIA) ; Open source license list ; Free software license list ; Fedora license list and CPL compatibility ; Public domain declaration ; The simplified BSD license ; The Apache license, version 2.0 ; The Mozilla public license, version 1.1 ; The GNU lesser general public license, version 2.1 ; The GNU lesser general public license, version 3 ; The GNU general public license, version 2, June 1991 ; The GNU general public license, version 3, June 2007 ; The open software license, version 3.0.
ISBN
  • 9780596517960 (pbk.)
  • 0596517963 (pbk.)
OCLC
213307382
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library