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*** https://twitter.com/asynchio/status/1082702841964244992
** [https://jvns.ca/blog/2018/09/01/learning-skills-you-can-practice/ Julia Evans, "How to teach yourself hard things"]
== Week 2 ==
* Licenses
** Rights, privileges, responsibilities, etc. applicable to someone other than the work's creator
** "Terms and Conditions"
** These must be granted by a copyright holder
* No License
** What can you do with code you find that has no license?
** [https://choosealicense.com/no-license/ what can I, can't I do?]
* Proprietary Licenses
** [https://www.spotify.com/ca-en/legal/end-user-agreement/ Spotify End User Agreement]
** [https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/Useterms/Retail/Windows/10/UseTerms_Retail_Windows_10_English.htm Microsoft Windows]
** [https://www.apple.com/legal/sla/docs/iOS12.pdf iOS 12 (pdf)]
* Public Domain
** [http://www.sqlite.org/copyright.html SQLite], which is now used by literally everybody, see http://www.sqlite.org/famous.html
** [http://unlicense.org/ Unlicense]
* BSD License
** Family of Licenses, including [https://opensource.org/licenses/bsd-license.php 2-Clause BSD], [https://opensource.org/licenses/BSD-3-Clause 3-Clause BSD (aka New BDS)], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BSD_licenses#4-clause_license_.28original_.22BSD_License.22.29 4-Clause BSD]
** [https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/articles/bsdl-gpl/article.html "Why you should use a BSD style license for your Open Source Project"]
** BSD Licenses code is usually compatible with other open/closed code, when you want to mix them.
** Example software projects licensed under the BSD License:
*** Many Google Projects, including [https://developers.google.com/v8/ V8], [https://www.chromium.org/Home Chromium], [https://golang.org/ Go]
*** [https://d3js.org/ D3.js]
*** [https://www.djangoproject.com/ Django]
*** [https://www.nginx.com/ nginx]
*** [http://ex-vi.sourceforge.net/ Vi]
** Summary:
*** You need to retain the license and copyright notice
*** You can use it commercially or non-commercially (privately)
*** You can distribute it freely
*** You can modify it freely
* Discussion of projects found for [[DPS909 & OSD600 Fall 2019 - Lab 1|Lab 1]]
* [[DPS909 & OSD600 Fall 2019 - Lab 2|Lab 2]]
* Release 0.1 will be released this week
