How to teach OSS licenses and compliances at a university
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A university instructor describes a course they began teaching on open-source software licenses and compliance at a Japanese university, focusing on practical use cases and incidents of license violations. They cover why the course is needed, difficulties students have in reading complex licenses (especially GPL), how they structured last year’s lectures and quizzes, student and staff feedback, and planned improvements such as gathering more violation examples, deeper case work, and examining new OSS licenses for digital transformation.
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