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| Foreword | |
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| Preamble | |
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| Freedom and Open Source | |
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| The Language of Freedom | |
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| Defining Open Source | |
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| Open Source Principles | |
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| Intellectual Property | |
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| Dominion Over Property | |
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| Right Brain and Left Brain | |
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| Acquiring Copyrights and Patents | |
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| Original Works of Authorship | |
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| Works Made for Hire | |
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| Exclusive Rights of Copyright and Patent Owners | |
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| Copies | |
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| Exceptions to the Exclusive Right to Make Copies | |
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| Collective and Derivative Works | |
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| The Chain of Title for Copyright | |
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| The Chain of Title for Patents | |
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| Joint Works | |
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| Assigning Ownership | |
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| Duration of Copyright and Patent | |
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| Trademarks | |
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| Exceptions to Intellectual Property Protection | |
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| Distribution of Software | |
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| Contributors and Distributors | |
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| Distribution | |
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| Open Source Collaboration | |
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| Contributor Agreements | |
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| What About Users? | |
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| Taxonomy of Licenses | |
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| What Is a License? | |
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| Bare Licenses | |
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| Licenses as Contracts | |
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| Patent Licenses | |
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| Template Licenses | |
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| Types of Open Source Licenses | |
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| Academic Licenses | |
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| The BSD Gift of Freedom | |
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| BSD License as Template | |
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| The BSD License Grant | |
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| Source and Binary Forms of Code | |
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| Conditions under the BSD | |
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| Warranty and Liability Disclaimer | |
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| The MIT License | |
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| The Right to Sublicense | |
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| The Warranty of Noninfringement | |
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| The Apache License | |
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| Protecting Trademarks | |
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| The Apache Contributor License Agreement | |
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| The Artistic License | |
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| License Preambles | |
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| When Amateurs Write Licenses | |
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| Big Picture of Academic Licenses | |
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| Apache License Version 2.0 | |
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| Reciprocity and the GPL | |
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| The GPL Bargain | |
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| Copyleft and Reciprocity | |
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| Policy Objectives | |
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| The Preamble to the GPL | |
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| GPL as Template | |
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| The GPL Applies to Programs | |
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| Linking to GPL Software | |
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| Copyright Law and Linking | |
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| The LGPL Alternative | |
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| GPL Grant of License | |
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| Access to Source Code | |
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| "At No Charge" | |
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| Other Obligations in the GPL | |
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| The GPL and Patents | |
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| Accepting the GPL | |
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| The Mozilla Public License (MPL) | |
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| The Mozilla Story | |
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| The MPL Reciprocity Bargain | |
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| Contributors and Modifications | |
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| The MPL and Patents | |
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| Defending Against Patents | |
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| Other Important MPL License Provisions | |
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| Other Corporate Licenses | |
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| The Common Public License (CPL) | |
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| CPL as a Template | |
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| A Digression about Well-Written Licenses | |
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| Grant of Copyright and Patent Licenses | |
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| Reciprocity under the CPL | |
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| Exception to Reciprocity | |
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| Patent Defense | |
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| Defend and Indemnify | |
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| Ownership of the CPL License | |
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| The OSL and the AFL | |
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| Academic or Reciprocal? | |
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| Initial Paragraph of OSL/AFL | |
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| Grant of Copyright License | |
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| Grant of Patent License | |
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| Grant of Source Code License | |
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| Exclusions from License Grant | |
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| External Deployment | |
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| Attribution Rights | |
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| Warranty of Provenance and Disclaimer of Warranty | |
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| Limitation of Liability | |
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| Acceptance and Termination | |
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| Termination for Patent Action | |
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| Jurisdiction, Venue, and Governing Law | |
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| Attorneys' Fees | |
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| Miscellaneous | |
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| Definition of "You" in This License | |
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| Right to Use | |
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| Copyright and Licensing Notice | |
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| Choosing an Open Source License | |
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| How Licenses Are Chosen | |
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| The Free-Rider Problem | |
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| Making Money from Open Source | |
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| In-Licensing | |
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| Out-Licensing | |
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| Contributions to Projects | |
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| License Compatibility for Collective Works | |
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| License Compatibility for Derivative Works | |
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| Relicensing | |
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| Shared Source, Eventual Source, and Other Licensing Models | |
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| Alternatives to Open Source | |
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| Shared Source | |
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| Public Source | |
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| Dual and Multiple Licensing | |
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| Eventual Source and Scheduled Licensing | |
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| Combining Licensing Models | |
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| Open Source Litigation | |
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| Owning a Cause of Action | |
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| Damages | |
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| Injunctions | |
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| Standing to Sue | |
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| Burden of Proof | |
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| Enforcing the Terms of a Contract | |
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| Disputes over Ownership of Intellectual Property | |
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| Disputes over Derivative Works | |
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| Patent Infringement Litigation | |
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| SCO vs. Open Source | |
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| Open Standards | |
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| Defining Open Standards | |
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| Open Specifications | |
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| Enforcing the Standard by Copyright Restrictions | |
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| Licensing the Test Suite: The Open Group License | |
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| Discouraging Forks: Sun's SISSL | |
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| Patents on Open Standards | |
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| Reasonable and Nondiscriminatory | |
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| Royalty Free | |
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| The W3C Patent License | |
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| Justifying Open Standards and Open Source | |
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| The Open Source Paradigm | |
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| Appendices | |
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| Index | |
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| About the Author | |