Community Source Licensing - Links

The idea behind providing source code as part of a software license has become more popular in the last few years. The articles below discuss some of the related issues and business models that have evolved from this idea.

• Who Will Own Your Next Good Idea?
  (http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/98sep/copy.htm)

  The September issue of Atlantic Monthly has just published an article outlining copyright issues and includes the open source licensing scheme as part of the discussion.

• Netscape Communicator Open Source Code White Paper
  (http://www.netscape.com/comprod/products/communicator/white_papers/source.html)

  Explaination of why Netscape chose their licensing model