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Open Source Licensing: Software Freedom and Intellectual Property Law
by Lawrence E. Rosen
Description: Open Source Licensing: Software Freedom and Intellectual Property Law covers the legal principles and issues surrounding open source software licenses, focusing on software freedom and intellectual property rights. It examines key licensing models and their implications
ISBN: 0131487876
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an1sotropy · 2024-02-17 · Original thread
The author is sharing second thoughts about using the MIT license and yes, bad actors are going to break bad, but the point of licensing is to control re-use within the (enforceable) legal framework of copyright. Reciprocal licenses (thanks Lawrence Rosen[1] for that term less charged than copyleft or viral) cede less control, and provide more footholds for enforcement. Remember that GPL has (sometimes) worked as intended in adversarial commericial settings [2,3].

[1] https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/open-source-licensing/0...

[2] https://www.tp-link.com/us/support/gpl-code/

[3] https://www.zdnet.com/article/software-freedom-conservancy-w...