35 6 Vol. 3 5 No.6 2 0 1 7 6 Hebei Law Science Jun. 2 0 1 7 DOI 10.16494 /j.cnki.1002-3933.2017.06.001 100083 DF523.1 A 1002-3933 2017 06-0002-10 On Open Source Software Copyright Risk and Countermeasures XIAO Jian-hua CHAI Fang-mo School of Law Beihang University Beijing 100083 China Abstract Open source software has gained great success by unique business concept. Its operating mechanism is guaranteeing the access of developing and using source codes by public under different types of licensing system and the recognition of the basis of traditional copyright. On the one hand open source movement inspired developer's 2017-01-06 www.cnki.net 2017 5 2 242 2015R067 2007JJD810172 1966-1991- 2
passion for making open-source software to be developed and updated breaking the traditional business software copyright erected barriers. But market-oriented development model can also lead to a variety of acts in violation of open-source license letting the original copyright holders facing crisis. Recognition and protection of the rights of indigenous people copyright is the foundation of open source software's existing and developing. In order to build a reasonable open source copyright risk control mechanism the measures should including four steps clearing the effectiveness of the open source license contract and open source copyright dispute jurisdiction establishing of open registration system giving the open source community plaintiff qualifications. Key words open source software copyright infringement risk measures open source software 1969 IBM 1983 Richard Matthew Stallman GUN Free Software GPL GPL GPL GPL GPL GPL 1 1998 Eric Raymond Bruce Perens Open source software GPL OSI 1 GPL A- 1 OSIA OSIA 78 GPL LGPL MPL BSD https / /opensource.org /licenses /alphabetical 2017 1 4 3
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