<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><xml><records><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="7.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>17</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Dru Lavigne</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Editorial: Licensing (October 2007)</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Open Source Business Resource</style></secondary-title></titles><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2007</style></year><pub-dates><date><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">10/2007</style></date></pub-dates></dates><urls><web-urls><url><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">http://timreview.ca/article/62</style></url></web-urls></urls><publisher><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Talent First Network</style></publisher><pub-location><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Ottawa</style></pub-location><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">In his book Open Source Licensing: Software Freedom and Intellectual 
Property Law, Lawrence Rosen defines licensing as &quot;the legal way a copyright and patent owner grants permission to others to use his intellectual property&quot;. When you consider that  the bread and butter of a company usually revolves around its intellectual property, it's not suprising that open source licenses are often regarded with suspicion. How is it possible for a company's interests to be protected by a license written by another party? And how can a company provide &quot;open&quot; access to its intellectual property without &quot;giving away the store&quot;?

Simon Phipps, Chief Open Source Officer for Sun Microsystems, once stated in an interview: &quot;While open source licensing lets people have access...this doesn't have to mean that chaos ensues.&quot; This issue of the OSBR provides insights to help navigate the chaos that is often associated with open source licenses.</style></abstract><issue><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">October 2007</style></issue><work-type><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Editorial</style></work-type><custom1><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Talent First Network
Dru Lavigne is a technical writer and IT consultant who has been active with open source communities since the mid-1990s. She writes regularly for O'Reilly and DNSStuff.com and is author of the books BSD Hacks and The Best of FreeBSD Basics.</style></custom1></record></records></xml>