ECS 188 Links

Free and Open Source Licenses

1. http://www.opensource.org/
2. Slashdot review of "Open Source Licensing: Software Freedom and Intellectual Property Law" by Lawrence Rosen
3. http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/license-list.html
4. http://www.gnu.org/licenses/licenses.html
5. http://www.apache.org/licenses/
6. The GNU General Public License (GPL)

Software Patents

1. NoSoftwarePatents.com
2. Quotations on Software Patents
3. Software Patents vs Parliamentary Democracy
4. Bill Gates and other communists by Richard Stallman
5. Patent Prescription by Adam Jaffe and Josh Lerner, IEEE Spectrum
6. Chilling Effects Clearinghouse (See organizations below)
7. A History of the Patent Law of the United States, Ladas & Parry LLP

Reference

• Applied Ethics Resources on WWW
• ComputingCases.org
• Computer Ethics / Stanford Encyclopedia of philosophy"
• The Online Ethics Center for Engineering and Science at Case Western Reserve University
• David Vance's cyberethics page
• ICEE - Interactive Computer Ethics Explorer (quizes visitor about an ethical scenario)
• <>FindLaw - A Law Search Engine
  

Organizations

• Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility (CPSR)
  
• Federation of American Scientists
• Electronic Frontier Foundation, aka EFF
• The Research Center on Computing and Society
• geekcorps.org (Peace Corps for Techies)
• Chilling Effects Clearinghouse is a joint project of the EFF, Harvard, Stanford, Berkeley, University of San Francisco, University of Maine, and George Washington School of Law clinics.  Chilling Effects aims to help you understand the protections that the First Amendment and intellectual property laws give to your online activities.

Ethical Codes

• ACM code of ethics
• CPSR's ten commandments of computer ethics.
  

Digital Rights Management (DRM)

• John Walker's "The Digital Imprimitur"
• darknet - A paper from some folks at Microsoft
• Trusted Computing FAQ
  

The Broadcast Flag

• EFF Article
• http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=7703873   (saved copy to disk since probably link will die.)

EULAs

• EFF Whitepaper on EULAs

Offshoring

•  http://www.stc-siliconvalley.org/offshoring/
•  December 2004 offshoring section of the Economist
  

Miscellaneous

• http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/network/2004/10/13/phishing.html
• Universities and the military: AAU data sheet . Remarks from the Association of American Universities to the DOD.
• Danny Hillis' millennium clock and The Long Now Foundation that will build it.
• A scientist who destroyed the oldest living organism on our planet
• Bikini Atoll
• Edelbach's course at The College of New Jersey
• UC "Standards of Ethical Conduct"