Labyrinth of Software Freedom

(BSD vs GPL and social aspects of free licensing debate)

Dr. Nikolai Bezroukov

Draft (version 0.96)

Introduction

Chapter 1: Social Roots, Complexity and Never Ending Process of Interpretation of GPL

Chapter 2: Social Dynamics of Free Software Licenses in the the Context of the Program Life Cycle

Chapter 3: The Idea of Dynamic Licensing

References (Note: additional materials can be found in my page Social aspects of the BSD vs. GPL debate)

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Created May 1, 1998; Last modified: March 08, 2008

Labyrinth of Software Freedom

(BSD vs GPL and social aspects of free licensing debate) Dr. Nikolai Bezroukov

Draft (version 0.96)

Contents

(BSD vs GPL and social aspects of free licensing debate)

Dr. Nikolai Bezroukov