software licensing 101 - vishwak360
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An introduction to Software Licensing. A presentation done by Venkatarangan, Chairman of Vishwak Solutions (www.vishwak.com) as part of Vishwak360 ProgramTRANSCRIPT
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VISHWAK 360
SOFTWARE LICENSING 101
MAY 2011
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IPR – LEGAL MUMBO JUMBO
Kinds of Property
Jure in re aliena
Leases Servitudes Securities. Etc.
Jura in re propria
Immaterial things
Patents, Copyrights,
Trade-Marks, etc.
Material Things
Land, ChattelsIncorporeal property
Corporeal property
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“Only one thing is impossible for God: To find any sense in any copyright law on the planet."
-- Mark Twain
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REASONS FOR COPYRIGHT• Recognition for the work done by the author
• Rewarding them for the work
• Giving them Exclusive Rights for the work
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PATENT - HOW IT WORKS?
Inventor
Patent office
Public
1) Applie
s to G
overnment
2) Grants
Patent
3) Viewing rights to Public
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BASIC REQUIREMENTS FOR PATENT• It should be new
• It should be useful
• Non - obvious
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WHAT IS TRADEMARK?
• Visual symbol
• Word or Device
• Label applied to articles of commerce
• Introducing the goods to the society
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LICENSES• Transfers rights without ownership
• Rights transferred can be
• Copyright• Patent• Trademark• Trade secret
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SOFTWARE LICENSES• MIT
• Free BSD
• Apache
• GPL / LGPL – General Public License
• MS-PL
• Commercial Licenses – Windows 98 or EasyStruct
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COMMON MYTH• There is no compulsion to release changes that you make,
either under the GPL or any other open source license
• You may keep internal versions of GPL software that you have modified without necessarily licensing them to anyone else (Google)
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REFERENCES
http://www.opensource.org/licenses/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_source
http://creativecommons.org/
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