Copyright or copyleft? An analysis of property regimes for software development

Research Policy

Volumn 34, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 1511-1532

  De Laat, Paul B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Commons; Intellectual property rights; Licensing; Open source; Software

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER CRIME; COPYRIGHTS; PROBLEM SOLVING; SECURITY OF DATA;

COMMONS; INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS; OPEN SOURCE;

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 28044452899     PISSN: 00487333     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.respol.2005.07.003     Document Type: Article

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