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• IT manager or technical staff
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publications

• strategy and policy
• open standards
• open source software development
• intellectual property rights (IPR), licensing and patents
• building communities
• examples of open source software
• case studies

When software code is written, property is created. The owner of that property may license it for use by others. Such licensing may be part of a business plan to capitalize on the intellectual property of the software. These resources explore issues around intellectual property rights, patent law, open source software licences and more.

• The Eclipse Public License - An Overview
• Releasing your code under an open source licence
• Free & Open Source Software Licensing
• Free and open source software in mobile devices
• Community source vs open source
• The community source development model
• GNU Affero General Public License v3 - An Overview
• Free and open source software and your patents
• Common Public Attribution License - An Overview
• Contributor Licence Agreements
• Open Invention Network Round-Table Media Event, London, 4 October 2007
• GPL v3 - What's New?
• Creative Commons and Open Content
• OSS Watch Relicensing: the case for Creative Commons
• Software Patents
• Open Source Development - An Introduction to Ownership and Licensing Issues
• Dual Licensing
• The GNU General Public License v2 - An Overview
• The GNU Lesser General Public License v2.1 - An Overview
• The Mozilla Public License - An Overview
• The Modified BSD License - An Overview
• The Apache License v2 - An Overview

Further external resources:

• Open source licence auditing service from Neolex [http://www.neolex-opensource.com/]
• Mixed-source software development [http://www.iusmentis.com/computerprograms/opensourcesoftware/mixedsource/]
• Law and technology research [http://www.valimaki.org/], Mikko Vàliméki
• Open Source License Law Resource Center [http://www.denniskennedy.com/resources/technology-law-central/opensourcelaw.aspx]
• An overview of open source software licenses [http://www.abanet.org/intelprop/opensource.html]
• Creative Commons [http://creativecommons.org/]
• IPR Helpdesk [http://www.ipr-helpdesk.org/]
• Groklaw [http://www.groklaw.net/]