Research On Intellectual Property Protection Of Open Source Software

Open source software is to calculate a revolution in the software industry on a milestone significance. And traditional commercial software contrast, open source software can customize the source code to modify, to freely copy, mostly free applications, which has played an unprecedented role in the popularity of the software industry for the development and promotion. The concept of open source software is worth mentioning, it is advocated freedom and equality, sharing spirit of cooperation, to achieve real information sharing and selfless dedication. But with open source software into commercial channels, also has its own interests and objectives of the chase, the special nature of open source software, in real life also had a lot of disputes. Faced with endless disputes, the moment for the protection of computer software and general legal theory can not fully balance the interests of all parties. Thus, the need for more detailed and more powerful legal regulation of these issues. By analyzing the issue of open source software, and put forward relevant improvement suggestions, hoping to give the development of open-source software plays a modest career.This paper was divided into five parts:The first part presents an overview of the overall open-source software, first introduced the concept of classification and open source software, open source software refers to computer software open source code, the user can use, copy, modify and distribute computer again software. Then introduced the process of emergence and development process, the emergence of open-source software is open-source software because there are commercial software monopoly. Today, open source software has the traditional software market had a profound impact. Finally, the spread of open source software license rely, including the type of license and the analysis for a typical license.The second part is to discuss the open source software in today's status quo and problems arising from open-source software because its source code is open, so easily lead to the source of the source code of the dispersion, thus, raises copyright infringement risk, in addition, users of open source software products, but also produce the possibility of patent infringement.The third part is an open source software intellectual property protection and reasonable analysis, including rationality and feasibility analysis of open-source software copyright protection and patent protection for open-source software rationality and feasibility analysis, this section for the second part of the problems, in terms of intellectual property law on open source software were analyzed.The fourth part of the fourth article lists for study abroad as well as open-source software system for its significance in China, through the United States, Europe nations, such as Britain, Germany and the European Union and other countries and regions, study, summed up significance of the open source software development.The fifth recommendation is to improve intellectual property protection system in China open source software, open source software in the world rapid pace of development, but development in China started late, slow, lack of legislation on the play, problems also exist for the protection of open-source software. In this section, combined with China's actual situation, improve the open source software protection against some suggestions, hoping to have a broader open-source software application development prospects and a brighter future in our country.