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Ethical Concerns about Digital Property: The Case of FLOSS Licenses

In: Emerging Digital Spaces in Contemporary Society

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  • Roberto Feltrero

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Free software programmers have applied some of the values and principles that belong within the ideal of a pluralistic, transparent and collaborative knowledge society to their technological designs (Feltrero 2007). These principles are implemented by means of the licenses that cover their computer programs and the associated documentation. Such licenses, legally rooted on, and protected by, copyright laws, give the users the right to freely use, copy, study and redistribute the modifications of their software developments, provided that they keep those modifications free. In this way, free software supporters have transformed the usual meaning of copyright laws from the motto “Copyright, all rights reserved” to “Copyleft, all rights reversed.”

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  • Roberto Feltrero, 2010. "Ethical Concerns about Digital Property: The Case of FLOSS Licenses," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Phillip Kalantzis-Cope & Karim Gherab-Martín (ed.), Emerging Digital Spaces in Contemporary Society, chapter 6, pages 145-147, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-0-230-29904-7_23
    DOI: 10.1057/9780230299047_23
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