A brief introduction to open source licenses, why they are important, different types of licenses, and challenges related open source software licenses. Latter part of the presentation also talks a bit about how to apply Apache Licence to a project.
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Open Source Software Licenses
1. Open Source Software
Licenses
Victor Rodriguez Doncel <vrodriguez@fi.upm.es>
Nandana Mihindukulasooriya <nmihindu@fi.upm.es>
Ontology Engineering Group (OEG)
Facultad de Informática
Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
6. Software Licenses
• Software without licenses
• Intellectual Property Laws apply
• Copyrighted by default (Berne Convention)
• Licenses are used to explicitly express
• Rights
• Obligations
• Conditions
• Warranty disclaimers
• Important when delivering software
• Users are can make decisions whether or not to use the software
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