2. Presentation of free licenses
2.1 What is a license
A license is a contract that sets out the conditions for guaranteeing, using, modifying, copying and distributing the software. It confers rights as well as obligations on users and developers.
These conditions may be more or less restrictive, and must comply with the relevant legislation. The existence of a license is, of course, conditional on its author holding copyright.
Copyright is an Anglo-Saxon concept. It covers only the patrimonial aspect, unlike copyright, which encompasses moral rights (the work is the expression of a person, and moral rights guarantee its protection as such).
However, since the Berne Convention, these two terms have...
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Regulations
Directive 2001/29/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of May 22, 2001 on the harmonization of certain aspects of copyright and related rights in the information society, known as "EUCD" (OJ L. 167 of June 22, 2001, pp. 10-19).
Law no. 2006-961 of August 1 2006 on copyright and related rights in the information society, known as the "DADVSI law" (JO no. 178...
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Open source : http://www.linux-france.org/article/these/the_osd/fr-the_open_source_definition_monoblock.html
Comparing GPLv2 and GPLv3 : http://groklaw.net/articlebasic.php?story≥20060118155841115
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