[TOS] notes about licenses and need for licensing

[Chris Aniszczyk]

There's a couple guides from the TODO Group that may be relevant to you
(more corporate open source focused):

https://github.com/todogroup/guides/blob/master/using-open-source.md
https://github.com/todogroup/guides/blob/master/participating-in-open-source.md

On Sun, Apr 15, 2018 at 10:24 PM, Gina Likins <glikins at redhat.com> wrote:

> Hi all - I have a set of slides; however, I'm not sure they'd be
> incredibly useful as they are mostly pictures. That said, I've done the
> FOSS licensing presentation remotely for Becka Morgan's class, so if that
> would be doable, I'm up for it.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Gina
>
> On Sun, Apr 15, 2018 at 6:28 PM, Karl R. Wurst <kwurst at worcester.edu>
> wrote:
>
>> Joanna,
>>
>> Stoney and I wrote this assignment about a year ago :
>> http://foss2serve.org/index.php/Intro_to_Copyright_and_Licen
>> sing_(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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>>
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Chris Aniszczyk
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