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Class times for Fall, 2006 have not been released yet.276.8 sec. 1 - Open Source Development & Licensing (Fall 2006)
Instructor: Pamela Samuelson (view instructor's teaching evaluations | profile)
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Units: 3
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Course Control Number (Non-1Ls): 50909
Substantial investments are being made by many individuals and firms in the development and distribution of open source software and other information artifacts. This course will consider economic and business rationales for adoption of open source modes of production and dissemination and will consider how open source projects might be made sustainable. It will examine licensing models widely used by open source developers, which generally grant rights to use and modify licensed information on condition that users agree to carry over to derivative works the same license restrictions imposed by the open source developer. For software, this includes free publication of source code. Open source and open access licensing models are being adapted to apply to more than just computer software, such as databases of scientific information, certain biotechnology innovations, and music. Whether the metaphor of open source has wider social ramifications as a modality of community governance
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Course Category: Technology and Intellectual Property
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