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Author Meeker, Heather J., 1959-

Title The open source alternative understanding risks and leveraging opportunities / Heather J. Meeker
Published Hoboken, NJ : Wiley & Sons, c2008

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 285 p. :) ill., forms
Contents Free software and open source -- Common open source licenses and their structure -- Due diligence, license proliferation, and compatibility -- Audits and compliance initiatives -- Notice requirements -- Patents and open source -- Trademarks and open source -- Open source and open standards -- Developing a corporate open source policy -- Open source code releases -- Technical background : operating system kernels, user space, and elements of programming -- Enforcement of open source licenses -- The border dispute of GPL2 -- License or contract? -- Defining distribution -- Open source in mergers and acquisitions and other transactions -- GPL version 3.0 -- LGPL version 3.0
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Open source software -- Law and legislation.
Computer programs -- Patents
Copyright -- Computer programs.
Computer software industry -- Licenses
Free computer software -- Law and legislation.
Computer programs.
Computer software industry -- Licenses.
Copyright -- Computer programs.
Free computer software -- Law and legislation.
Open source software -- Law and legislation.
Genre/Form Patents.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2007034466
ISBN 9780470194959
0470194952