Ethical concerns about digital property: the case of FLOSS licenses

[EN]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 compu...

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Autor: Feltrero, Roberto
Formato: capítulo de livro
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2010
País:España
Recursos:Universidad de Salamanca (USAL)
Repositorio:GREDOS. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Salamanca
OAI Identifier:oai:gredos.usal.es:10366/169959
Acesso em linha:http://hdl.handle.net/10366/169959
Access Level:acceso embargado
Palavra-chave:Ética
Propiedad Intelectual
Licencias FLOSS
Copyleft
Libertades
Human Rights
Ethics
Freedom
ética
libertad
derechos humanos
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Resumo:[EN]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.