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MeetingFour

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on July 4, 2006 at 9:08:14 pm
 

June 26, 1800-2100

 

 

  1. Housekeeping:
    1. Labs will be only on Fridays. The Monday and Wenesday meetings will b ein the lecture theatre
    2. There will be a quiz on Monday July 3rd. It will be a written quiz. It will have two questions covering topics covered during the 1st two weeks of this class.
  2. Review of meeting from week one including labs

  1. The Economic model of Open Source
  2. Copyrights, Patents and Trademarks
    1. RAND - Reasonable And Non Discriminatory
  3. Licensing models:
    1. What is the GPL?
    2. The 4 levels of freedom
    3. Creative Commons


Presentation Slides


July 4th 2006:

 

I received the following question and here is my answer:

 

Q1) What does the integrity of the Author's Source Code mean? Does it mean that the original author can prohibit another person (who modified the source code) to distribute the modified version? Or when a person distribute the modified software, he/she must attached the original source code together with the distribution?

 

A1) The idea behind this is to ensure that the original author's code is made available in the original format to anyone who needs it because it could be that those who took the code from the 1st author could have done changes etc to which the 1st author is not entirely aware of. Hence, if a user uses the modified code and finds an issue with it and approachs the 1st author for help, for example, the 1st author would want to know if the user is using his original code or something modified. In general, the 1st author might not be aware of the changes and improvements done to his code in all circumstances. Hence the need to preserve the integrity of the original author's code.

 

It is like saying that you bought a new car and then you went to modify it. After the modification, you sold it to a 3rd person. Now that 3rd person has some issue with the car and goes back to the manufacturer of the car. Will the manufacturer agree to fix the issue? In most cases you cannot because the "integrity of the car" is not there anymore. In the case of software, that is less of an issue because you can always get the code of the orginal author.

 

Q2) Can u explain in more layman terms for the following phases: "License must not be Specific to a Product"

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