Re: Re-using copyrighted code

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Date	Mon, 10 Jun 2013 07:24:46 -0700
From	Ethan Furman <ethan@stoneleaf.us>
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On 06/10/2013 05:57 AM, Robert Kern wrote:
> On 2013-06-08 22:31, Malte Forkel wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I have written a small utility to locate errors in regular expressions
>> that I want to upload to PyPI.  Before I do that, I would like to learn
>> a litte more about the legal aspects of open-source software. What would
>> be a good introductory reading?
>
> Larry Rosen's free (open source, even!) book _Open Source Licensing_ is good introductory reading. Larry is an
> intellectual property lawyer and helped draft the current PSF license.
>
>    http://www.rosenlaw.com/oslbook.htm

Nice, thanks for the link!

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~Ethan~

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