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5.2.2 Freedom to reproduce ...................................................................................................................................... 74 5.2.3 Freedom to modify .......................................................................................................................................... 75 5.2.4 Freedom to (re)distribute................................................................................................................................. 77 5.2.5 Royalty free distribution .................................................................................................................................. 82 5.2.6 Regulation of exploitation contracts ................................................................................................................. 84 5.3 MORAL RIGHTS UNDER OPEN SOURCE LICENCE...................................................................................... 85 5.3.1 Right of first publication ................................................................................................................................. 86 5.3.2 Right of paternity............................................................................................................................................ 87 5.3.3 Right of integrity............................................................................................................................................. 88 5.4 DUAL LICENSING............................................................................................................................................ 90 6. Open Source and Patent Law....................................................................................................91 6.1 SOFTWARE PATENTS IN THE NETHERLANDS ........................................................................................... 92 6.1.1 Current legal framework ................................................................................................................................. 93 6.1.2 Proposed EC Directive on the patentability of computer-implemented inventions .............................................. 96 6.2 OPEN SOURCE AND PATENTED SOFTWARE .............................................................................................. 99 6.2.1 Open source patenting strategy......................................................................................................................... 99 6.2.2 Open source licences....................................................................................................................................... 101 7. Enforcement of Open Source Licences.................................................................................103 7.1 STANDING TO SUE........................................................................................................................................ 103 7.2 ENFORCEMENT IN PRACTICE..................................................................................................................... 109 8. Concluding remarks ..................................................................................................................113 9. Practical recommendations ......................................................................................................117 9.1 RECOMMENDATION 1: NAME THE PARTIES TO THE CONTRACT........................................................ 117 9.2 RECOMMENDATION 2: ENSURE PROPER FORMATION OF CONTRACT ............................................... 117 9.3 RECOMMENDATION 3: CLARIFY THE COPYRIGHT OWNERSHIP.......................................................... 118 9.4 RECOMMENDATION 4: CLARIFY THE SCOPE OF THE SHARE-ALIKE CLAUSE.................................... 118 9.5 RECOMMENDATION 5: REVIEW THE FSF EUROPE FIDUCIARY LICENCE AGREEMENT................ 118 Annexes.................................................................................................................................................121 1. GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE.................................................................................................... 121 2. BSD AND MIT .............................................................................................................................................. 126 3. MOZILLA PUBLIC LICENCE (MPL 1.1)...................................................................................................... 127 4. FIDUCIARY LICENCE AGREEMENT (VERSION 1.0) ................................................................................ 134 Bibliography .........................................................................................................................................137 MONOGRAPHS AND REPORTS............................................................................................................................. 137 CITED CASE LAW....................................................................................................................................................... 149 iv
List of abbreviations AA Ars Aequi AfP Archiv für Presserecht ALAI Association Littéraire et Artistique Internationale AMI Auteurs, Media- en Informatierecht ARRvS Afdeling Rechtspraak Raad van State BC Berne Convention BGH Bundesgerichtshof BIE Bijblad bij de Industriële Eigendom BSD Berkeley Software Distribution CC Civil Code CD-ROM Compact Disk Read Only Memory CPI Code de la Propriété Intellectuelle CVS Concurrent Version System EEA European Economic Association EC European Community EIPR European Intellectual Property Review EPC European Patent Convention EPO European Patent Office FLA Fiduciary Licence Agreement FSF Free Software Foundation GPL General Public Licence GNU abbreviation for ‘GNU is not Unix’ GRUR Gewerblicher Rechtsschutz und Urheberrecht GRUR Int. Gewerblicher Rechtsschutz und Urheberrecht Internationaler Teil Gw Grondwet HR Hoge Raad – Dutch Supreme Court ifrOSS Institut für Rechtsfragen der freien en Open Source Software IER Industriële Eigendom en Reclamerecht IIC International Review of Industrial Property and Copyright Law ISS Information society service NJ Nederlandse Jurisprudentie NJB Nederlandse Juristenblad NJV Nederlandse Juristenvereniging OJ Official Journal OSD Open Source Definition OSS Open Source Software Pres. Rb. President Rechtbank (President of the District Court) RVDW Rechtspraak van de Week TRIPS Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights WIPO World Intellectual Property Organisation ZUM Zeitschrift für Urheber- und Medienrecht v
Page 1 and 2: UNRAVELLING THE MYTH AROUND OPEN SO
Page 3: TABLE OF CONTENTS List of abbreviat
Page 8 and 9: open content movement have been emb
Page 12 and 13: 2. Origins of Open Source Open sour
Page 14 and 15: that the linking of groups of compu
Page 16 and 17: mathematics, physics, or biology. T
Page 18 and 19: 2.1.7 The Open Source Definition Th
Page 20 and 21: Seen from a qualitative standpoint
Page 22 and 23: 1. It is being accompanied by the c
Page 24 and 25: This program is free software; you
Page 26 and 27: ecord is also constituted of the pr
Page 28 and 29: Not every open source project is as
Page 30 and 31: 3.1.3 Dutch contributions to open s
Page 32 and 33: The Apache server The official vers
Page 34 and 35: The considerations of licensers and
Page 36 and 37: formulates a set of guidelines for
Page 38 and 39: 3.3.5 Organisations OSOSS is fulfil
Page 40 and 41: under the definition of ‘open sou
Page 42 and 43: exhausts the distribution right of
Page 44 and 45: particular software product, the si
Page 46 and 47: 4.3 Formation of contract We have s
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of distance communication up to and
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‘This provision is aimed specific
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part of that work constitutes or is
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included in an act.’ 197 Accordin
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warranty of merchantability or usag
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4.6.1 Restriction and disclaimer of
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ights and obligations arising under
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5. Open Source and Copyright Law So
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software, only as long as the lines
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In addition, mere aggregation of an
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necessary”. 254 Whenever develope
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‘Unless otherwise agreed, the rep
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Apart from the limited acts of load
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owner’s exclusive rights, such as
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as the license of the original soft
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“These requirements apply to the
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the work is put into circulation, e
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installation instructions and in ma
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limited to those acts explicitly en
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will decide whether the proposed mo
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only in exceptional circumstances,
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6. Open Source and Patent Law The g
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of an infringement or an invalidati
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Unlike copyright protection, patent
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Parliament must then adopt the text
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6.2 Open source and patented softwa
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software companies may decide to fo
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7. Enforcement of Open Source Licen
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In the case of open source software
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3. The right of making available in
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even more compatible with European
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informally out of court. They conce
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8. Concluding remarks This book gav
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highly problematic. Open source sof
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9. Practical recommendations To fac
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necessary for the exploitation of t
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The precise terms and conditions fo
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as distribution of the source code,
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2. BSD and MIT 126 This is a sample
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2. Source Code License. 2.1. The In
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You may choose to offer, and to cha
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8.3. If You assert a patent infring
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4. Fiduciary Licence Agreement (Ver
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§ 5 Miscellaneous (1) Regarding th
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De Cock Buning 1993 De Cock Buning,
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Horne, N.T., ‘Open Source Softwar
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McGowan, D., ‘Legal Aspects of Fr
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Rosen 2003 Rosen, L., 'Geek Law: De
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Van Engelen 2004 Van Engelen, D.,
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Cited case law The Netherlands HR 2
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