Welcome to Open Source Licensing
Welcome to Open Source Licensing¶
This course covers the fundamentals of licensing and how it relates to software and open source, how does the license review process works, and the role of copyrights, patents, and trademarks. We will conclude the course by discussing how to choose the right open source license.
Let’s get started!
Check out the content pages below.
- Objectives
- Disclaimer
- What is a license?
- What is a software license?
- The role of copyrights, patents, and trademarks
- Origins of open source licensing
- What is “distribution”?
- The first open-source license: BSD
- The License Review Process
- The Open Source Definition
- Open-source licenses vs. the public domain
- The three basic licenses
- Permissive vs. copyleft open-source licenses
- Contributor license agreements
- Creative Commons
- Choosing the right open-source license