First Publication Date: 3rd March 2009
The CDDL was formulated by Sun Microsystems for development and distribution of some of its software. The license is considered to be one of the most popular licenses. Some of the softwares released under CDDL include, OpenSolaris, NetBeans IDE and RCP, GlassFish, JWSDP and so on.Rights
Any person receiving a software under CDDL gets a world wide, non-exclusive and royalty-free license
over the software. The license grants the following rights over the software:
Copyrights
The…
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First Publication Date: 25th March 2008
Introduction
The Lesser General Public License("LGPL") is a license used by the Free Software Foundation for software libraries. The license governs all open source software libraries of Free Software Foundation and many others who choose to use it. LGPL defines terms and conditions for copying, modification and distribution of software libraries. Version 3 of LGPL incorporates all provisions of the General Public License ("GPL") and lays down certain additional permissions for software libraries.
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A software library governed…
First Publication Date: 10th February 2008
The Mozilla Public License (MPL), is a license developed by Netscape Communications. Most of its provisions are same as the Netscape Public License. The license is considered to be a middle ground between the General Public and BSD licenses.
Rights granted under the license
Any software distributed under MPL grants both copyrights and patent rights to the recipient. The license grants the following copyrights over the software:
Right to use;
Right…
First Publication Date: 4th February 2008
The GNU General Public License ("GPL") is one of the most popular open source licenses. All software released by the Free Software Foundation and many other authors, are governed by this license. GPL provides the freedom to share and modify software under certain conditions.
Copy, Run and Distribute
GPL allows a person to copy, run and distribute the software governed by it. A person is allowed to distribute verbatim copies of the software, commercially…
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Intellectual Property
Patents
Copyrights
Trade Marks
Trade Secrets
Industrial Designs
Plant Varieties
Traditional Knowledge
Patents
Subject Matter - Invention
Useful
Novel
Non-Obvious
Term: 20 Years
Rights: Make, Use, Sell, Offer for Sale, and Import.
Copyrights
Subject Matter: Expressions
Original
Creative
Literary, Dramatic, Artistic, Photographic, Sound Recording, and Cinematographic Works
Term: Life Plus…