[TOS] notes about licenses and need for licensing

[Wes Turner]

We often ask OSI to come in and present on this. Our Open Source
organization requires that the students pick an OSI approved license. You
already have their page in your list, but I will endorse them ...

- Wes

On Mon, Apr 16, 2018 at 9:40 AM, Chris Aniszczyk <caniszczyk at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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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>>>  Computer Science, Worcester State University
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>>
>>
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>
> Chris Aniszczyk
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