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Software Protection / Control
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+Protections vs. Control
Software Patents
Categories of Licences :
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GPL and LGPL
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Choosing Free/OpenSource software
Why address this question in classes at INT
Miscelleanous
Appendices
  

Protections vs. Control

<subtitle>A proper exercise of control ?</subtitle>

Copyright controls whether one may :

  • Use

  • Copy in order to give or sell

  • (try to) Modify

  • Go outside the limits granted by a license

Free and OpenSource software demonstrate the need to limit control by authors (and editors)

Not a total control, to preserve basic freedoms of the public, competitors : innovation, privacy, freedom of the markets,...
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