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Software Copyrights and Licenses DANIEL PARKER
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Overview Copyrights Software copyright information Software licenses & some examples Why copyrighting is important
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Copyright Basics Form of intellectual property Creator of original work has exclusive rights to its use/distribution Software not initially covered by copyright
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Software Copyright How is software covered by copyright? Copyright law extends to machine-readable code Prevents unauthorized copying/modification/distribution of software/source code Fair use Modification of source code for personal use is legal, as is reverse engineering in order to gain access to ideas and design
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Software Licenses Legal document that governs the use/redistribution/modification of software Adobe General Terms of Use Adobe General Terms of Use iTunes End User Agreement iTunes End User Agreement Two types of software licenses Proprietary, which does not grant access to licenses to modify source code, and open-source software, which does
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Proprietary Software Developed to perform specific tasks (one that developers don’t want changed), restricted use, source code not disclosed Some proprietary software and their open-source counterparts: Skype vs Linphone SkypeLinphone Microsoft Outlook vs Thunderbird Microsoft OutlookThunderbird Blackboard vs Moodle BlackboardMoodle
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Open-source Can be freely used, modified, and shared GitHub is a great place to find open-source software that interest you GitHub GNU is an OS that is open-source, can be freely used, modified, and shared GNU OpenJDK is an open-source implementation of Java Standard Edition OpenJDKJava Standard Edition
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Popular Open-source Licenses Apache-2.0 (copyleft) Apache-2.0 GNU General Public License (copyleft) GNU General Public License GNU LGPL (less strict than GNU GPL) GNU LGPL MIT License (“true” open-source) MIT License
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Resources Resources exist to help understand proprietary and open-source software, and software copyrights Copyright.gov Copyright.gov Open-source InitiativeOpen-source Initiative tl;dr Legal tl;dr Legal
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Importance of Copyrights/Licenses Very important for software developers because: Gives developer security as to how they want their applications used (yes, even open-source licenses) Source: http://looneytunes.wikia.com/wiki/That's_All_Folkshttp://looneytunes.wikia.com/wiki/That's_All_Folks
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Sources https://en.wikipedia.org https://en.wikipedia.org https://opensource.org https://opensource.org https://tldrlegal.com/ https://tldrlegal.com/
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