The Language of Freedom
Open source licenses promise to everyone what many in the community refer to as software freedom. The terminology of freedom is emotionally satisfying, but it has proven to be very confusing.
Freedom is an important subject in law school. Constitutional law courses address such topics as the free speech clause of the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. But freedom seldom comes up as a topic in classes devoted to business issues such as contract or tort law, or software licensing. Law school courses on intellectual property deal with copyright and patent, but they don't teach about freedom, referring instead to the rights of the owners of those legal monopolies. As a result, there is no easy conceptual basis for integrating ...
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