Open Source Licensing: Software Freedom and Intellectual Property Law

Other Corporate Licenses

Open source software has been adopted by many of the world's largest software companies. While most have adopted one or another of the licenses already discussed in this book (either the GPL or one of the academic licenses), some of them also now distribute their own open source software under their own corporate licenses. Open Source Initiative now lists licenses from a number of major companies including Apple, Lucent, IBM, Intel, Nokia, Real Networks, Ricoh, Sun, and Sybase. (See www.opensource.org.)

Each of those licenses puts a spin on one or another licensing technique already described in this book. Examining each of them in turn would be unproductive. Every one of those licenses satisfies the Open Source Principles ...