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Introduction
Principles
Geopolitics of Software Industry
History
"Sociology" of the movement
Legal considerations
+Software Protection / Control
The 4 freedoms, again
Protections vs. Control
Software Patents
Categories of Licences :
Choosing a licence
GPL and LGPL
FAQ: Open Source vs. Free  Software
Choosing Free/OpenSource software
Why address this question in classes at INT
Miscelleanous
Appendices
  

Software Protection / Control

How is software legally protected ("Intellectual Property") :

  • Basic legal nature of software defined by Copyright law (aka. droit d'auteur in continental europe)

  • Various grants through a License

Whose business is it ?

  • Author

  • Publisher

  • Customer

  • Public / Community
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