Summary and Setup

This a new lesson meant to help learners understand Open Source Licensing.

Learning Objectives

After completing this lesson, learners will be able to:

  • Describe what an open source license is
  • Describe an example of what can happen if a license isn’t applied to a project
  • Identify the difference between permissive and non-permissive (copyleft) licenses, with an example of each
  • List the most common open source licenses
  • Describe an example of what can happen when a project’s dependencies’ licenses clash
  • Choose a license for an example project and explain why that’s the right choice
Prerequisite
  • No licensing knowledge required, this is the starting point of the lesson.
  • Some basic understanding of what open source software is, helps but isn’t strictly required, since the lesson can open with the basics.

FIXME: Setup instructions live in this document. Please specify the tools and the data sets the Learner needs to have installed.

Data Sets

Download the data zip file and unzip it to your Desktop

Software Setup

Discussion

Details

Setup for different systems can be presented in dropdown menus via a spoiler tag. They will join to this discussion block, so you can give a general overview of the software used in this lesson here and fill out the individual operating systems (and potentially add more, e.g. online setup) in the solutions blocks.

Use PuTTY

Use Terminal.app

Use Terminal