Legal Aspects of Open Source: Open Software, Open Hardware, and Open Data Licenses (Advanced)
Subtitle Instructor Elizabeta Zirnstein Target This course is designed for lawyers, starting companies (founders), managers, entrepreneurs, researchers and developers with a solid understanding of licensing. This course is also suitable for investors who may wish to explore investing in a company that builds its products on open source or releases them as open source. It will help them to understand open source licenses. Relevance This training is relevant to managers, entrepreneurs, researchers, developers, lawyers, […]
Legal Aspects of Open Source: Understanding Licenses (Basic)
Subtitle Open/free licenses do not mean that everything is allowed Instructor Elizabeta Zirnstein Target This course is designed for managers, entrepreneurs, researchers and developers with no background in IP rights and licencing. It will help them to understand different types of intellectual property rights and how can they transfer those rights to others. It aims to support them in their first steps into the world of open-source licencing. This course is also suitable for investors […]
Copyleft License
A copyleft license is a type of open-source software license that aims to ensure that the freedoms provided by the license are passed on to subsequent users and developers. It achieves this by requiring any modified or extended versions of the original software to be distributed under the same terms.In essence, a copyleft license uses copyright law to protect the freedoms of the software and its users. It requires that any derivative works, which include […]
