Dual Licensing in Open Source Software Industry

This paper analyses how several open source companies use dual licensing: both open source and proprietary licenses for one product. Three case studies based on the experiences of companies Sleepycat Software Inc., MySQL AB, and TrollTech AS illustrate the issue. Especially the legal and economic requirements of dual licensing are identified

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Year of publication:	[2014]
Authors:	Valimaki, Mikko
Publisher:	[2014]: [S.l.] : SSRN
Subject:	Open Source \| Open source \| Lizenz \| Licence \| Softwareindustrie \| Software industry \| Software \| Immaterialgüterrechte \| Intellectual property rights

Extent:	1 Online-Ressource (24 p)
Series:	Systemes d´Information et Management ; Vol. 8, No. 1, pp. 63-75, 2003
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Language:	English
Notes:	Nach Informationen von SSRN wurde die ursprüngliche Fassung des Dokuments December 15, 2002 erstellt
Other identifiers:	10.2139/ssrn.1261644 [DOI]
Source:	ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW

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