"오픈소스" 소프트웨어 라이센싱

"Open Source" Software Licensing

is Article presents a background of the opens source software movement and an overview of the intellectual property rights that arise in open source software to lay a foundation for the discussion of this issue. The two most notable open source software licenses are the GNU General Public License promulgated by the Free Software Foundation and the Mozilla Public License written and used by Netscape Communications. No court has yet ruled on the enforceability of open source software licenses. This article introduces general open source software licenses and discusses the current analysis of their enforceability and addre! sses every conceivable argument against the enforceability of open source software licenses.