Heather Meeker's Open Source Licensing Resources

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Open Source Licensing Resources

The Open Source Alternative: Understanding Risks and Leveraging Opportunities

by Heather J. Meeker
A Primer on Intellectual Property Licensing

by Heather Meeker
The Next Wave of Technologies: Opportunities in Chaos

by Phil Simon

Open Source Basics
Licensing Information and FAQs
GPLv3
- GPLv3 text
- FSF Summary
- The Kernel Maintainers' Letter
  
  On the Second Discussion Draft
- Black Duck's listing of GPL/LGPLv3 projects
- Last Call Rationale Document
  
  Rationale documents for previous drafts are also on the FSF site.
Technical Stuff

Not suitable for technophobes -- viewer discretion advised
- LInux System Calls
- Bruce Perens on combining GPL and non-GPL software
  
  An excellent article on a complex topic
Some Open Source Software
- Sourceforge
  
  Open source repository
- Boost Project
  
  C++ libraries
- Mozilla (Firefox)
- Linux Kernel
- Audacity
  
  Totally cool audio workstation
- Musescore
  
  Open source music notation
- Subversion
  
  Version control software

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