Learning Objectives:

In this module, you will learn to:

• Understand the terminology “free software” and explain open source culture and principles.
• Express an educated opinion on the philosophical/political debate between open source and proprietary principles.
• Reason about the tradeoffs of different open source licenses and business models.

Lecture Slides:

• Open Source Slides PDF, PPT

Resources

• Open Sources: Voices from the Open Source Revolution
• Why Open Source Misses the Point of Free Software
• How Open Source Ate Software: Understand the Open Source Movement and So Much More
• MongoDB Licensing FAQ
• MongoDB Removed from Debian due to incompatible license