%0 Journal Article %J Open Source Business Resource %D 2008 %T Free and Open Source Licenses in Community Life %A Stefano De Paoli %A Maurizio Teli %A Vincenzo D'Andrea %X The objective of this article is to examine how software licenses in build and shape political and technological boundaries. We examine the cases of the Geographic Resources Analysis Support System( GRASS) geographical information system and the OpenSolaris operating system. The first project is GPL licensed software developed by a worldwide community of voluntary programmers; the second project is sponsored by a company and released under the Common Development and Distribution License (CDDL) license. %B Open Source Business Resource %I Talent First Network %C Ottawa %8 10/2008 %G eng %U http://timreview.ca/article/193 %N October 2008 %9 Articles %1 National University of Ireland Maynooth Stefano De Paoli is a Post-Doctoral Fellow at the National University of Ireland Maynooth in Ireland. His research interests include computer security, legal protection of intellectual creations, and information technology and division of labor. %2 University of Trento Maurizio Teli, PhD in Sociology and Social Research, University of Trento (Italy), has a background in Political Science. He is involved in and researches about the importance of FLOSS "practices of freedom" in the processes of organizing a community and producing technology. %3 University of Trento Vincenzo D'Andrea is an Associate Professor at the University of Trento. His research interests include service-oriented computing, free and open source licensing, and virtual communities.