Intellectual property and open source
By: Van Lindberg.
Publisher: O'Reilly
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Sebastopol, CA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 371
ISBN-13: 9780596517960
Subjects: Intellectual property -- United States; Computer networks -- Law and legislation -- United States
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The economic and legal foundations of intellectual property; title: The patent document; title: The patent system; title: Copyright; title: Trademarks; title: Trade secrets; title: Contracts and licenses; title: The economic and legal foundations of open source software; title: So I have an idea ...; title: Choosing a license; title: Accepting patches and contributions; title: Working with GPL; title: Reverse engineering; title: Incorporating as a non-profit; title: Appendices: Sample proprietary information agreement (PIA) ; Open source license list ; Free software license list ; Fedora license list and GPL 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.