Open source is an approach to the design, development, and distribution of software, offering accessibility to a software’s source code. It is a licensing model of intellectual property.
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Professor Pamela Samuelson, University of California, Berkeley, explains why Google’s win in the Oracle v. Google case is valuable for all software developers as well as the general public.
June 13, 2016
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“Procurement” is the process by which governments choose to obtain and buy goods and services from the private sector.
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"Developers of software need some simple norms to live by. One such norm is that independent reimplementation of an API in one's own original code does not infringe copyright. That's the law as well as good public policy." — Pamela Samuelson, Professor of Law, University of California, Berkeley
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This paper reviews some key economic aspects of Open Source Software (OSS).
May 31, 2011
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