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Open Source Software: Concepts and Strategies

X408.8 (1 semester unit in EECS)

Get an overview of open source software and its characteristics in comparison to proprietary software and freeware and learn about the open source development model, the open source community, and open source licenses. Learn strategies for using open source software and for contributing open source software. You then investigate the benefits and risks of the different approaches and gain a solid understanding of the process that takes place when developing your open source software strategy.

The course teaches essential open source compliance techniques and practices tailored specifically to professionals using open source in commercial environments. The course provides an introduction on open source compliance, a review of open source compliance study case studies from the industry, and a review of the key challenges. The focus of the course is on compliance techniques and strategies that allow companies to ship a product containing open source software while meeting all open source software license obligations and without putting their intellectual properties at risk.

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Wed. July 29, Redwood City

IBRAHIM HADDAD, Ph.D., is director of open source at Palm. Prior to Palm, Haddad was director of technology at Motorola, senior manager at OSDL, and senior researcher with Ericsson. He is co-author of two books on Red Hat Linux and Fedora, and a contributing editor of the Linux Journal.

NOTE: This class is closed. For information about related courses, contact your academic department.

• $475 (EDP 305359)

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