Heather Meeker's Open Source Licensing Resources

Source code is the text file that a computer programmer uses to write a program. Source code files are processed through a program called a "compiler," which creates object code ...

Here is a definition of open source "Open Source" is sometimes also called "free software," but as the FSF says, think free speech, not free beer . Open source licensing ...

Most software developers only license the object code to their programs for two reasons: (1) they do not want competitors to see how to decode their programs, and (2) they do ...

Some licensees have the bargaining power to demand it. Some licensors are required to use open source licensing because they have used code they got under the GPL . Some licensors ...

There is plenty of information on the Web about this. Start with www.fsf.org , the site for the Free Software Foundation. Linux is an open-source alternative to Unix -- ...

Plenty! Check out Mozilla (my personal favorite), BSD , and Apache .

Enforceability. Most unenforceability arguments are based on the fact that the user never accepts the terms of the GPL. In other words, most people have made an argument based ...

Clients. If you are looking for advice particular to your situation, you may wish to seek my advice as an attorney. I have lots of experience in consulting ...

If your software lawyer does not get this joke: #define ever (;;) s/he may not know how to analyze, say, the complexity of data sharing of inherited classes to ...

It's not very precise to apply the term open source in areas other than software. Open source is about access to source code -- information that enables full use of ...