Intellectual Property and Open Source: A Practical Guide to Protecting Code
"Clear, correct, and deep, this is a welcome addition to discussions of law and computing for anyone — even lawyers!" — Lawrence Lessig, Professor of Law at Stanford Law School and founder of the Stanford Center for Internet and Society\ If you work in information technology, intellectual property is central to your job — but dealing with the complexities of the legal system can be mind-boggling. This book is for anyone who wants to understand how the legal system deals with intellectual...
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This resource, written by a programmer and intellectual property attorney, places the computer field on a firm basis for understanding, applying, and debating key concepts in copyrights.
1 The Economic and Legal Foundations of Intellectual Property 12 The Patent Document 213 The Patent System 494 Copyright 715 Trademarks 1036 Trade Secrets 1197 Contracts and Licenses 1338 The Economic and Legal Foundations of Open Source Software 1539 So I Have an Idea 17910 Choosing a License 19711 Accepting Patches and Contributions 21512 Working With the GPL 22313 Reverse Engineering 23914 Incorporating as a Non7profit 253A Sample Proprietary Information Agreement (PIA) 271B Open Source License List 281C Free Software License List 285D Fedora License List and GPL Compatibility 289E Public Domain Declaration 299F The Simplified BSD License 301G The Apache License, Version 2.0 303H The Mozilla Public License, Version 1.1 309I The GNU Lesser General Public License, Version 2.1 319J The GNU Lesser General Public License, Version 3 329K The GNU General Public License, Version 2, June 1991 333L The GNU General Public License, Version 3, June 2007 341M The Open Software License, Version 3.0 355Index 359
