Prentice Hall has published a book about open source licenses by intellectual property lawyer Larry Rosen.

He is currently general counsel and secretary of Open Source Initiative (OSI), formerly served as its executive director, and has written several major open source licenses.

The book:

• Explains why the SCO litigation and other attacks won’t derail open source
• Dispells the myths of open source licensing
• Describes intellectual property law for nonlawyers: ownership and licensing of copyrights, patents, and trademarks
• Includes “Academic licenses”: BSD, MIT, Apache, and beyond
• Outlines the “reciprocal bargain” at the heart of the GPL
• Reports on the benefits of open source, and the obligations and risks facing businesses that deploy open source software, and more.