Open (Source) for Business: A Practical Guide to Open Source Software Licensing

By Heather Meeker

Book Overview

Heather Meeker's Open Source for Business is a practical, readable guide to help businesspeople, engineers, and lawyers understand open source software licensing. Based on the author's twenty years as an attorney working at the crossroads of intellectual property and technology, this guide explains the legal and technical principles behind open source licensing so you can make the right decisions for your business. It offers tips on using open source, contributing to open source projects, and releasing your own open source software. You'll also find quick-reference tables on the major open source licenses, plus forms and checklists you can use to promote compliance. In this book, you will learn . . . Why open source is not a "virus" What the GPL is and how to handle it When and how to conduct open source audits What a user-friendly open source policy looks like How to avoid and respond to open source enforcement claims How to use open source to fight patent infringement claims How to manage trademarks for open source products"

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1511617772
• ISBN13: 9781511617772
• Release Date: April 2015
• Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Solid Effort... A must Have for Struts developers....

I have just about all the Struts books. I reach for this book quite a bit. It is a great reference book. It is well written and well organized.If you are doing serious Struts development, you should probably have both "Struts in Action" (Manning) and this book.I reach for the Manning book the most. It seems to have the most information. I reach for this book second. This book seems to be better organized than the "Struts in...

A Great Advanced Guide to Struts

This book is a must have! I've been programming with Struts for about 6 months and I didn't want a beginners guide. This book hits the perfect level with me and covers the stuff that I wanted to know about. It's definitely not a beginners guide, although I think even beginning Struts developers should read it to save themselves time later.Here's why I'm giving it five stars:Chapter 1 - Covers MVC and Model 2 Background and...

A Serious Review about Programming Jakarta Struts

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Must buy!!

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An Awesome book on Struts!

I read the draft chapters of this book and found the coverage to be excellent and the author's style to be very good. The material that was posted to theserverside.com was so helpful and shows that the author is comfortable with his ability to write and teach the topic of Struts.Reason why this is must have: - Covers Struts 1.1 - Covers advanced topics - The exception handling and logging chapters alone are worth the $$$...