Free and Open Source Software: Policy, Law, and Practice

by Ian Walden and Noam Shemtov

Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) is realized through legal instruments, private law agreements, licenses, promises and community norms. These private law instruments reside within a public law framework that grants exclusive and monopoly rights to creators of intellectual property.

Written by FOSS experts, this work delivers an in-depth examination of the legal and commercial structures relating to the usage and exploitation of FOSS software...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199680493
• ISBN13: 9780199680498
• Release Date: January 2014
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 544 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.9" x 8.7"