Open Source Software

By
Kalyan C Kankanala
Chief Knowledge Officer
Brain League IP Services

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2007
Background

Evolution
Concept
Principles

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Principles

Free Re-distribution
Source Code
Derived Works
Integrity of the Author
No Discrimination
Against Persons or Groups.
Against Fields of Endeavor
Distribution of License
Not Specific to a Product
No Contamination of Other Software
Technology-Neutral

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2007
 GPL

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Provisions

Rights
Conditions
Flexibilities
Patent assertion - license
terminates
Sub-licensing not allowed
Warranty and Liability

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Provisions

Non-source transfers
Additional terms
Technology measures

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Other Licenses

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2007
Comparison Table

GPL NPL BSD

Rights Copyrights Copyrights and Copyrights

Patents

Source code Yes Yes No

Sub-Licensing No No Yes

Patent assertion No No Yes

Warranty No No No

Notice Yes Yes Yes

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Open Source and Business

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Business

Selling copies of open source software

Reliable
Up to date
Virus attack
Customization services
Training and implementation
Contractual protection
Indemnity
Warranty

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2007
Use of OSS in business

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Models

OSMM - Open Source Maturity Model

Navica
CapGemini

BRR - Business Readiness Rating

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OSMM - Navica

Maturity level of OSS

Three phases - Select, Assess and
Integrate
Support
Documentation
Training
Product integration
Professional services
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BRR

Score
1-5
1 – Unacceptable
5- Excellent

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2007
Phases

Phase 1 – Quick Assessment

Phase 2 – Target usage assessment
and Category weights
Phase 3 – Data collection and
processing
Phase 4 – Data translation

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Target Usage - Categories

Functionality
Usability
Quality
Security
Performance
Scalability
Architecture
Support
Documentation
Adoption
Community
Professionalism

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2007
Rating

Average score on a scale of 5

1 - Unacceptable
2 - Poor
3 - acceptable
4 - Very good
5 - Excellent

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2007
Cases and Issues

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2007
Progress v. MySQL AB

Gemini software
Distribution by Progress under
License violates GPL
Denied injunction
Dispute whether derivative work
governed by GPL
Withdraw end user license

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2007
SCO v. IBM

Bought Unix
Fragments of Unix incorporated into
kernel of Linux
Copyright violation on IBM
Letters to Linux end user customers
Redhat's suit

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2007
Microsoft

Linux
235 patents
IBM, Red Hat and so on

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2007
OSS Model

Business plan
Protect
Avoid violation
Make the best of what is available

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2007
 Thank you.
Contact :

Kalyan C. Kankanala
Chief Knowledge Officer,
Brain League IP Services
Email: kalyan@brainleague.com
Ph: 91-80-41489502/4
Url: www.brainleague.com
Blog: www.indianipinfo.blogspot.com
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2007