Re-using copyrighted code

[Robert Kern]

On 2013-06-08 22:31, Malte Forkel wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have written a small utility to locate errors in regular expressions
> that I want to upload to PyPI.  Before I do that, I would like to learn
> a litte more about the legal aspects of open-source software. What would
> be a good introductory reading?

Larry Rosen's free (open source, even!) book _Open Source Licensing_ is good 
introductory reading. Larry is an intellectual property lawyer and helped draft 
the current PSF license.

   http://www.rosenlaw.com/oslbook.htm

-- 
Robert Kern

"I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma
  that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had
  an underlying truth."
   -- Umberto Eco