"Clear, right, and deep, this can be a great addition to discussions of legislation and computing for somebody -- even lawyers!"-- Lawrence Lessig, Professor of legislations at Stanford legislation university and founding father of the Stanford heart for web and Society

If you're employed in details expertise, highbrow estate is significant in your task -- yet facing the complexities of the felony procedure will be mind-boggling. This booklet is for someone who desires to know the way the criminal process bargains with highbrow estate rights for code and different content material. you will get a transparent examine highbrow estate concerns from a developer's perspective, together with sensible recommendation approximately events you are more likely to encounter.

Written through an highbrow estate legal professional who's additionally a programmer, Intellectual estate and Open Source is helping you know patents, copyrights, logos, exchange secrets and techniques, and licenses, with unique concentrate on the problems surrounding open resource improvement and the GPL. This booklet solutions questions such as:

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• What when you take into consideration while selecting an open resource license to your project?

Most criminal assets are too scattered, too arcane, and too not easy to learn. Intellectual estate and Open Source is a pleasant, easy-to-follow review of the legislations that programmers, procedure directors, photograph designers, etc will locate essential.