Open source licenses and the creative commons framework: License selection and comparison

Journal of Information Science and Engineering

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 1-17

  Lin, Yi Hsuan ^a,c   Ko, Tung Mei ^a   Chuang, Tyng Ruey ^a   Lin, Kwei Jay ^b,d,e  

^a INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION SCIENCE   (Taiwan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c Creative Commons Taiwan ^*  (Taiwan)

^d University of California at Irvine   (United States)

^e IEEE

Author keywords

Copyleft; Copyright; Creative Commons; FOSS; Free software; License; Open source; Program

Indexed keywords

COPYLEFT; COPYRIGHT; CREATIVE COMMONS; FOSS; FREE SOFTWARE; LICENSE; OPEN SOURCE; PROGRAM;

COMPUTER SCIENCE; KNOWLEDGE ENGINEERING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SPECIFICATIONS;

OPEN SYSTEMS;

EID: 31344473650     PISSN: 10162364     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

References (15)

1. GNU Project: http://www.gnu.org/.
2. FSF: http://www.fsf.org/.
3. See http://www.fsf.org/licensing/essays/free-sw.html, last visited April 26, 2005.
4. OSI: http://www.opensource.org/.
5. The open source definition, available on http://www.opensource.org/docs/ definition.php.
6. See http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html.
7. See http://www.opensource.org/licenses, last visited May 12, 2005.
8. Available on http://www.mozilla.org/MPL/NPL-1.1.html, last visited May 12, 2005.
9. Available on http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/opensources/book/netrev.html.
10. Available on http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/opensources/book/netrev.html.
11. Available on http://creativecommons.org/about/history, last visited May 3, 2005.
12. Available on http://creativecommons.org/about/licenses/, last visited May 3, 2005.
13. The explanation of 6 different CC licenses is available on http://creativecommons.org/license/meet-the-licenses, last visited May 3, 2005.
14. CC license wizard is available on http://creativecommons.org/license/? lang=en, last visited May 3, 2005.
15. See http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#GPLCommercially, last visited May 2, 2005.