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Packaging Open Source

Author(s) -

Mark H. Webbink

Publication year - 2010

Publication title -

international free and open source software law review

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

ISSN - 1877-6922

DOI - 10.5033/ifosslr.v1i2.26

Subject(s) - license , intellectual property , open source , open source software , context (archaeology) , mit license , engineering , software , software engineering , computer science , operating system , paleontology , biology

The paper examines the historical approaches for packaging software and what effect open source licenses may have on the rights that are conveyed or not conveyed based upon the packaging approach. The paper then suggests some best practices that maximize the value of an application in the context of a virtual appliance - protecting the application intellectual property while maintaining compliance with open source license requirements.

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