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| Licence profile: BSD | The BSD software licence is one of the most popular open source software licences, with simpel permissive licence terms. This artivle is a short overview of the licence, examining its elements and their interpretation. | 1-6 |
| GNU GPL 2.0 and 3.0: Obligations to include licence text and provide source code | An explanation as to whether, under the terms of the GNU GPL 2.0 and 3.0, a distributor of covered code is entitled to, a. provide a copy of the relevant licence in electronic form or else via a link to an online location; b. rely on online distribution of source code without the need to offer source code on a physical medium; and c. rely on a third party distribution of the corresponding source code. | 7-12 |
| Copyright in open source software: Understanding the boundaries | This paper seeks to explore the application of U.S. copyright law to software and particularly software that is developed and licensed under an open source model. We address the boundaries of copyright protection and ownership, the importance of intent, timing, and creative expression in determining these boundaries, and provide guidance to those looking to launch open source projects. | 13-38 |
| Package review as a part of free and open source software compliance | Free and open source software (FOSS) package review is an essential part of license compliance when businesses take into use FOSS. This artivcle discusses the practical process of package review and the legal questions that arise and conclusions that can be made. Furthermore, this article presents the process and a number of legal conclusions applied by Validos ry, an association for performing package review and sharing its results. The purpose of presenting a particular process is to share and improve the applied methodology with a long-term vision of unifying the expectations for package review and license appraisal, thus contributing to the ease of taking into use of FOSS by businenesses. | 39-60 |
| Italian constitutional court gives way to free software friendly laws | The decision affirmed that a regional law on public procurement may give more weight to tenders that provide free software and by analogy, implement open standards. The Court held that such a provision is compatible with the Constitution and more specifically, that thsi form of preferences is not contrary to competition law. The rulling therefore overcomes one of the most significant obstacles to the blossoming of similar provisions across Europe: that they do not give preference to a technical solution, but rather to a particular type of transfer of rights. | 61-66 |
| Lawyers in the bazaar: Challenges and opportunities for open source legal communities | There is fairly common perception among members of the free and open source software (FOSS) developer community that there is no equivalent community of FOSS lawyers. Despite the perception, the FOSS legal community exists and is growing. This note will explore the gap between the perception and the reality, first by briefly surveying the state of the FOSS legal community and then byh exploring the reasons why there is such a disconnect between the lawyers and the community of our clients. Finally, it will suggest some ways in which this nascent community might invest in improving itself. | 77-84 |
| Oriented specification system | COSS gives workgroups the tools to develop new digital standards with minimum bureaucracy. COSS is a produc of the Digital Standard Organization (Digistan), which the FFII open standards workgroup founded with other participants in 2007. In this article he explains why Digistan build COSS and how it works. | 85-99 |
