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An Instance Of Open Hardware: A Different Approach To Free And Open Source Hardware Licensing, Timothy Murphy
An Instance Of Open Hardware: A Different Approach To Free And Open Source Hardware Licensing, Timothy Murphy
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As open source software ("OSS") has become more prevalent, and more widely accepted, many different OSS licenses have proliferated to provide different licensing constructs for licensors and licensees. The most popular OSS license is the GNU General Public License ("GPL"), which is protective of author rights and intended to foster an open software community. Because software source code and object code files are primarily protected by copyright, the options for license terms are relatively straightforward and well known. To the extent patent rights become an issue, various additional provisions have been proposed to address that issue in the context of …