In 1980, the US government amended the law to treat software as a literary work. Software released after this point was restricted by IP laws. At that time, American activist and programmer Richard Stallman was working as a graduate student at the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. Stallman witnessed fragmentation among software developers. He blamed the spread of proprietary software and closed models of development. To push back against these trends, Stallman founded the free software movement. Throughout the 1980s, he started the GNU Project to create a free operating system, wrote essays on freedom, founded the Free Software Foundation (FSF), and wrote several free software licenses. The FSF used existing intellectual property laws for the opposite of their intended goal of restriction. Instead of imposing restrictions, free software explicitly provided freedoms to the recipient.
In the 90s, the term "open source" was coined as an alternative label for free software, and specific criteria were laid out to determine which licenses covered free and open-source software. Two active members of the free software community, Bruce Perens and Eric S. Raymond, founded the Open Source Initiative (OSI). At Debian, Perens had proposed the Debian Free Software Guidelines (DFSG). The DFSG were drafted to provide a more specific and objective standard for the FOSS that Debian would host in their repositories. The OSI adopted the DSFG and used them as the basis for their Open Source Definition. The Free Software Foundation maintains a rival set of criteria, the Free Software Definition. Historically, these three organizations and their sets of criteria have been the notable authorities in determining whether a license covers free and open-source software. There is significant diversity among individual licenses but little difference between the rival definitions. The three definitions each require that people receiving covered software must be able to use, modify, and redistribute the covered work.
Licenses focus on copyright law, but code is also covered by other forms of IP. Major open-source licenses written since the late 1990s contain patent grants. These open-source patent grants cover the patents held by the developers. Software patents cover ideas and, rather than a specific implementation, cover any implementation of a claim. Patent claims give the holder the right to exclude others from making, using, selling, or importing products based on the idea. Because patents grant the right to exclude rather than the right to create, it is possible to have a patent on an idea but still be unable to legally implement it if the invention relies on another patented idea. Thus, open-source patent grants can offer permission only from covered patents. They cannot guarantee that a third party has not patented any concepts embodied in the code. The older permissive licenses do not discuss patents directly and offer only implicit patent grants in their offers to use or sell covered material. Newer copyleft licenses and the 2004 Apache License offer explicit patent grants and limited protection from patent litigation. These patent retaliation clauses protect developers by terminating grants for any party who initiates a patent lawsuit regarding covered software.
Trademarks are the only form of IP not shared by free and open-source software. Trademarks on FOSS function the same as any other trademark. A trademark is a design that identifies the distinct source of a product. Because they distinguish products, the same designs can be used in different fields where there is no risk of confusing similar sources. To give up control of a trademark would result in the loss of that trademark. Therefore, no open-source license freely offers the use of a trademark.
Trademark restrictions can overlap copyrights and affect material otherwise freely available. The US Supreme Court described using trademark law to restrict public domain content as "mutant copyright". In Dastar Corp. v. Twentieth Century Fox Film Corp., the court "caution[ed] against misuse or over-extension of trademark" law without providing a firm decision on those mutant copyrights. Trademark overlap can leave open-source and free content projects vulnerable to a "hostile takeover" if outside parties file for trademarks on derivative works. Notably, Andrey Duskin applied for trademarks on the SCP Foundation, a collaborative writing project, when creating derivative works based on SCP stories.
Copyleft uses the restrictions of IP law—contrary to their usual purpose—to mandate that the code remain open. The term and its related slogan, "All rights reversed", had been previously used in a playful manner by the Principia Discordia and Tiny BASIC; the modern usage begins with Richard Stallman's efforts to create a free operating system. In 1984, programmer Don Hopkins mailed a manual to Stallman with a "Copyleft Ⓛ" sticker. Stallman, who was working on the GNU operating system, adopted the term. An early version of copyleft licensing was used for the 1985 release of GNU Emacs. The term became associated with the FSF's later reciprocal licenses, notably the GNU General Public License (GPL).
Traditional, proprietary software licenses are written with the goal of increasing profit, but Stallman wrote the GPL to increase the body of available free software. His reciprocal licenses offer the rights to use, modify, and distribute the work on the condition that people must release derivative works under a license offering these same freedoms. Software built on a copyleft base must come with the source code, and the source code must be available under the same or a similar license. This offers protection against proprietary software consuming code without giving back. Richard Stallman stated that "the central idea of copyleft is to use copyright law, but flip it over to serve the opposite of its usual purpose: instead of a means of privatizing software, [copyright] becomes a means of keeping software free." Free software licenses are also open-source software licenses. The separate terms free software and open-source software reflect different values rather than a legal difference. Both movements and their formal definitions require the covered work to be made available with source code and with permission for modification and redistribution. There are occasional edge cases where only one of the FSF or the OSI accept a license, but the popular free software licenses are open source, including the GPL.
Practical benefits to copyleft licenses have attracted commercial developers. Corporations have used and written reciprocal licenses with a narrower scope than the GPL. For example, Netscape drafted their own copyleft terms after rejecting permissive licenses for the Mozilla project. The GPL remains the most popular license of this type, but there are other significant examples. The FSF has crafted the Lesser General Public License (LGPL) for libraries. Mozilla uses the Mozilla Public License (MPL) for their releases, including Firefox. IBM drafted the Common Public License (CPL) and later adopted the Eclipse Public License (EPL). A difference between the GPL and other reciprocal licenses is how they define derivative works covered by the reciprocal provisions. The GPL, and the Affero License (AGPL) based on it, use a broad scope to describe affected works. The AGPL extends the reciprocal obligation in the GPL to cover software made available over a network. They are called strong copyleft in contrast to the weaker copyleft licenses often used by corporations. Weak copyleft uses narrower, explicit definitions of derivative works. The MPL uses a file-based definition, the CPL and EPL use a module-based definition, and the FSF's own LGPL refers to software libraries.
When combining code bases, the original licenses can be maintained for separate components, and the larger work released under a compatible license. This compatibility is often one-way. Public domain content can be used anywhere as there is no copyright claim, but code acquired under any almost any set of terms cannot be waved to the public domain. Permissive licenses can be used within copyleft works, but copyleft material cannot be released under a permissive license. Some weak copyleft licenses can be used under the GPL and are said to be GPL-compatible. GPL software can only be used under the GPL or AGPL. Permissive licenses are broadly compatible because they can cover separate parts of a project. Multiple licenses including the GPL and Apache License have been revised to enhance compatibility.
Translation issues, ambiguity in licensing terms, and incompatibility of some licenses with the law in certain jurisdictions compound the problem of license compatibility. Downloading an open-source module is straightforward, but complying with the licensing terms can be more difficult. Because of the amount of software dependencies, engineers working on complex projects often rely on license management software to achieve compliance with the licensing terms of open-source components. Many open-source software files do not unambiguously state the license, increasing the difficulties of compliance.
Courts have found that distributing software indicates acceptance of the license's terms. Physical software releases can obtain the consumer's assent with notices placed on shrinkwrap. Online distribution can use clickwrap, a digital equivalent where the user must click to accept. Open-source software has an additional acceptance mechanism. Without permission from the copyright holder, the law prohibits redistribution. Therefore, courts treat redistribution as acceptance of the license terms. These can include attribution provisions or source code provisions for copyleft licenses.
Developers typically achieve compliance without lawsuits. Social pressures, like the potential for community backlash, are often sufficient. Cease and desist letters are a common method to bring companies back into compliance, especially in Germany. A standard process has developed in the German legal system. FOSS developers present companies with a cease and desist letter. These letters outline how to come back into compliance from a violation. German judges can issue a court-mandated cease and desist order to unresponsive companies. Civil cases proceed if these first steps fail. The German procedural laws are clear and favorable to claimants.
Uncertainties remain in how different courts will handle certain aspects of licensing. For software in general, there are debates about what can be patented and what can be copyrighted. Regarding an application programming interface (API), the European Court of Justice noted in the 2012 SAS Institute case that "ideas and principles which underlie [computer program] interfaces are not protected by copyright". In a similar 2021 case, the US Supreme Court permitted the recreation of an API in a transformative product under fair use.
A long-debated subject within the FOSS community is whether open-source licenses are "bare licenses" or contracts. A bare license is a set of conditions under which actions otherwise restricted by IP laws are permitted. Under the bare license interpretation, advocated by the FSF, a case is brought to court by the copyright holder as copyright infringement. Under the contract interpretation, a case can be brought to court by an involved party as a breach of contract. US and French courts have tried cases under both interpretations. Non-profit organizations like FSF and the Software Freedom Conservancy offer to hold the rights to developers' projects to enforce compliance.
Open-source licenses allow other businesses to commercialize covered software. Work released under a permissive license can be incorporated into proprietary software. Permissive licenses permit the addition of new terms, including proprietary ones. Proprietary software has heavily integrated open-source code released under the Apache, BSD, and MIT licenses. Open core is a business model where developers release a core piece of software as open source and monetize a product containing it as proprietary software. The strong copyleft GPL is written to prevent distribution within proprietary software. Weak copyleft licenses impose specific requirements on derivative works that may allow the covered code to be distributed within proprietary software in certain circumstances.
Since 2010, the cloud model has grown in prominence. Developers have criticized cloud companies that profit from hosting open-source software without contributing money or code upstream, comparing the practice to strip mining. Cloud computing leader Amazon Web Services has stated they comply with licenses and act in their customers' best interests.
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Maracke 2019, sec. 2.2. - Maracke, Catharina (July 2019). "Free and Open Source Software and FRAND-Based Patent Licenses: How to Mediate Between Standard Essential Patent and Free and Open Source Software". The Journal of World Intellectual Property. 22 (3–4): 78–102. doi:10.1111/jwip.12114. https://doi.org/10.1111%2Fjwip.12114
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Hammerly, Paquin & Walton 1999.
Tsai 2008, pp. 564–570. - Tsai, John (2008). "For Better or Worse: Introducing the Gnu General Public License Version 3". Berkeley Technology Law Journal. 23 (1): 547–581.
Hammerly, Paquin & Walton 1999.
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Rosen 2005, refer to corresponding chapters. - Rosen, Lawrence (2005). Open Source Licensing: Software Freedom and Intellectual Property Law (Paperback ed.). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall. ISBN 978-0-13-148787-1. Archived from the original on December 19, 2022. Retrieved January 21, 2023. https://www.rosenlaw.com/oslbook.htm
Smith 2022, sec. 3.3.
Rosen 2005, pp. 243–247. - Rosen, Lawrence (2005). Open Source Licensing: Software Freedom and Intellectual Property Law (Paperback ed.). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall. ISBN 978-0-13-148787-1. Archived from the original on December 19, 2022. Retrieved January 21, 2023. https://www.rosenlaw.com/oslbook.htm
St. Laurent 2004, pp. 159–163. - St. Laurent, Andrew M. (2004). Understanding Open Source and Free Software Licensing. Sebastopol, California: O'Reilly Media. ISBN 978-0596005818. https://freecomputerbooks.com/Understanding-Open-Source-and-Free-Software-Licensing.html
Smith 2022, sec. 3.3.
See Smith 2022, p. 102 for: Apache License version 2.0 in 2004, GPL version 3 in 2007, LGPL version 3 in 2007, and AGPL version 3 in 2007. See Smith 2022, pp. 95–101 for: MPL version 2.0 in 2012 and EPL version 2 in 2017.
Bernelin 2020, pp. 100, 102. - Bernelin, Margo (2020). "The Compatibility of Open/Free Licences: a Legal Imbroglio". International Journal of Law and Information Technology. 28 (2): 93–111. doi:10.1093/ijlit/eaaa010. https://doi.org/10.1093%2Fijlit%2Feaaa010
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Smith 2022, sec. 3.4.1.
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Smith 2022, sec. 3.4.1.
Ballhausen 2022, sec. 5.3.
Smith 2022, p. 106.
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Rosen 2005, ch. 6. - Rosen, Lawrence (2005). Open Source Licensing: Software Freedom and Intellectual Property Law (Paperback ed.). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall. ISBN 978-0-13-148787-1. Archived from the original on December 19, 2022. Retrieved January 21, 2023. https://www.rosenlaw.com/oslbook.htm
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Ballhausen 2022, p. 127.
Ballhausen 2022, sec. 5.4.
Walden 2022, sec. 1.1.
Smith 2022, sec. 3.1.3.
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Walden 2022, sec. 1.1.
Smith 2022, sec. 3.4.1.
Smith 2022, sec. 3.4.1.
Smith 2022, sec. 3.4.2.
Smith 2022, sec. 3.4.
Ballhausen 2022, sec. 5.4.
Rosen 2005, p. 36. - Rosen, Lawrence (2005). Open Source Licensing: Software Freedom and Intellectual Property Law (Paperback ed.). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall. ISBN 978-0-13-148787-1. Archived from the original on December 19, 2022. Retrieved January 21, 2023. https://www.rosenlaw.com/oslbook.htm
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Walden 2022, p. 3.
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St. Laurent 2004, p. 98. - St. Laurent, Andrew M. (2004). Understanding Open Source and Free Software Licensing. Sebastopol, California: O'Reilly Media. ISBN 978-0596005818. https://freecomputerbooks.com/Understanding-Open-Source-and-Free-Software-Licensing.html
Fagundes & Perzanowski 2020, p. 524. - Fagundes, Dave; Perzanowski, Aaron (November 2020). "Abandoning Copyright". William & Mary Law Review. 62 (2): 487–569.
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Brock 2022, sec. 16.3.3. - Brock, Amanda, ed. (2022). Open Source Law, Policy and Practice (Second ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/oso/9780198862345.001.0001. ISBN 978-0-19-886234-5. https://doi.org/10.1093%2Foso%2F9780198862345.001.0001
St. Laurent 2004, p. 14. - St. Laurent, Andrew M. (2004). Understanding Open Source and Free Software Licensing. Sebastopol, California: O'Reilly Media. ISBN 978-0596005818. https://freecomputerbooks.com/Understanding-Open-Source-and-Free-Software-Licensing.html
St. Laurent 2004, p. 22. - St. Laurent, Andrew M. (2004). Understanding Open Source and Free Software Licensing. Sebastopol, California: O'Reilly Media. ISBN 978-0596005818. https://freecomputerbooks.com/Understanding-Open-Source-and-Free-Software-Licensing.html
Onetti & Verma 2009, p. 81. - Onetti, Alberto; Verma, Sameer (May 1, 2009). "Open Source Licensing and Business Models". ICFAI Journal of Knowledge Management. 7 (1): 68–94.
St. Laurent 2004, p. 30. - St. Laurent, Andrew M. (2004). Understanding Open Source and Free Software Licensing. Sebastopol, California: O'Reilly Media. ISBN 978-0596005818. https://freecomputerbooks.com/Understanding-Open-Source-and-Free-Software-Licensing.html
Brock 2022, sec. 16.4.2.3. - Brock, Amanda, ed. (2022). Open Source Law, Policy and Practice (Second ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/oso/9780198862345.001.0001. ISBN 978-0-19-886234-5. https://doi.org/10.1093%2Foso%2F9780198862345.001.0001
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St. Laurent 2004, p. 39. - St. Laurent, Andrew M. (2004). Understanding Open Source and Free Software Licensing. Sebastopol, California: O'Reilly Media. ISBN 978-0596005818. https://freecomputerbooks.com/Understanding-Open-Source-and-Free-Software-Licensing.html
Smith 2022, sec. 3.3.
Brock 2022, sec. 16.5.2. - Brock, Amanda, ed. (2022). Open Source Law, Policy and Practice (Second ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/oso/9780198862345.001.0001. ISBN 978-0-19-886234-5. https://doi.org/10.1093%2Foso%2F9780198862345.001.0001
Brock 2022, sec. 16.4.2.8. - Brock, Amanda, ed. (2022). Open Source Law, Policy and Practice (Second ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/oso/9780198862345.001.0001. ISBN 978-0-19-886234-5. https://doi.org/10.1093%2Foso%2F9780198862345.001.0001
Brock 2022, sec. 16.4.2.2. - Brock, Amanda, ed. (2022). Open Source Law, Policy and Practice (Second ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/oso/9780198862345.001.0001. ISBN 978-0-19-886234-5. https://doi.org/10.1093%2Foso%2F9780198862345.001.0001
Brock 2022, sec. 16.5.3. - Brock, Amanda, ed. (2022). Open Source Law, Policy and Practice (Second ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/oso/9780198862345.001.0001. ISBN 978-0-19-886234-5. https://doi.org/10.1093%2Foso%2F9780198862345.001.0001
Brock 2022, sec. 16.5.3.8. - Brock, Amanda, ed. (2022). Open Source Law, Policy and Practice (Second ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/oso/9780198862345.001.0001. ISBN 978-0-19-886234-5. https://doi.org/10.1093%2Foso%2F9780198862345.001.0001
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Brock 2022, sec. 16.5.2. - Brock, Amanda, ed. (2022). Open Source Law, Policy and Practice (Second ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/oso/9780198862345.001.0001. ISBN 978-0-19-886234-5. https://doi.org/10.1093%2Foso%2F9780198862345.001.0001
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Brock 2022, sec. 16.5.3.2. - Brock, Amanda, ed. (2022). Open Source Law, Policy and Practice (Second ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/oso/9780198862345.001.0001. ISBN 978-0-19-886234-5. https://doi.org/10.1093%2Foso%2F9780198862345.001.0001