[TOS] notes about licenses and need for licensing

[Karl R. Wurst]

Joanna,

Stoney and I wrote this assignment about a year ago :
http://foss2serve.org/index.php/Intro_to_Copyright_and_Licensing_(Activity)
This assignment has one problem - the third project has no license, and
that is intentional so that students will have to talk about what it
means for using the code if there is no license. However, the students
tend think that there *must* be a license, or else why would we be
asking to look for one for this project. So they go looking for a
license in the other project under the same GitHub account, or the
government agency which ran the hackathon that created this project. We
probably need to find a new project with no license that is completely
standalone so students don't do this.

I wrote two others assignments for my class this semester, because I
needed more advanced options for student wanting higher grades (I'm
using Specification Grading). I have not yet formatted them for
Foss2Serve and posted them, but I'm attaching them here if you want to
use them. They are licensed CC-BY-SA.

I've provided them as HTML and the original Markdown documents which
should be easier to work from if you want to change them. If you do make
changes, I'd be interested in seeing any changes.

On 4/15/18 12:55 PM, Joanna Klukowska wrote:
> Hi Open Source Teachers:
>
> I am about to give the last lecture in my open source class and it
> needs to cover licensing (types of licenses available, differences
> between them and how to pick the license based on one's preferences
> but also based on licenses of other tools that a project might use).
>
> I am wondering if anybody have materials, readings, slides related to
> this content that they would be willing to share.
>
> So far I have the following:
>
> - The Legal Side of Open Source  https://opensource.guide/legal/
> - Chose and Open Source License https://choosealicense.com/
> - Open Source Initiative: About Open Source Licenses
> https://opensource.org/licenses
> and the foss2serve activities:
> - Choosing a License
> http://www.foss2serve.org/index.php/Choosing_A_License
> - Finding The License
> http://www.foss2serve.org/index.php/Finding_The_License
>
>
> So there is a lot to go on. But I hoping for more compact and
> comprehensive notes that I can cover in a course of an hour or so.
>
> Thanks in advance!
>
> Joanna
>
>

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