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5.5 Notes -> Legal and Ethical Concerns

• Section is about Free Software Licensing
• Lawyers make profession on Patents –> can be impacted by General Public Licensing (GPL)
• Qualcomm makes money on patents
• Using GPL makes it so you can’t charge for others using your software and patents
• Open Source –> derivative work free and code shared
• Royalty Payment –> anyone who uses idea/patent needs to pay
• Black Duck software composition analysis (SCA) -> manage security, quality, and licence compliance risks from using open source and third-party code
• Qualcomm has a huge team to run security risks and such so they can make money off patents
• Basically, make sure you are careful about the code you copy and ensure you know the restrictions based on the software license you are copying off
• When selecting a license, need to ask:
  • Do I want to waive default copyright in reuse?
  • Do I want to allow derivative works or not?
  • Do I want to require all deivative code to be shared?
• Creative Commons CCO Public Domain Dedication waives copyright interest in a work you’ve created and dedicates it to a www public domain
• Open Source MIT License –> friendly to people like Qualcomm –> allows code to be used freely in making and distributed closed source versions
• Open Source GPL license –> can do anything except distribute
• Make sure you comply with terms of licenses –> cite sources
• Can be complicated to understand all Creative Commons Licenses:
  • Music companies build DRM (Ditgital Rights Management) software to protect, play and/or distribute content
  • Open Source usually used for educational purposes so it is good for class
  • When using Open Source companies need to find techniques and business models for Open Source software to work as per the license
  • Many people use Red Hat business model because of it’s amazing Initial Public Offering (IPO) Questions:
    1. When you create a GitHub repository it requests a license type. Review the license types in relationship to this Tech Talk and make some notes in GitHub pages.
• Github has a site which allows you to chose from three diffent overarching groups –> work in community, simple, and sharing improvements
• Based on that you can decide which main branch you want to go down and then finalize
  1. Make a license for your personal and Team project. Document license you picked and why.
• Maybe thinking of using something that works for a community since it’s a page in which other people need to access in order to buy the masks.