Open Source Technology

Paper Code: 
MCA 323
Credits: 
04
Periods/week: 
04
Max. Marks: 
100.00
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Introduction: Open Source, Free Software, Free Software vs. Open Source software, Public Domain Software, FOSS does not mean no cost. History: BSD, The Free Software Foundation and the GNU Project.

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Open Source History, Initiatives, Principle and methodologies. Philosophy : Software Freedom, Open Source Development Model Licenses and Patents: What Is A License, Important FOSS Licenses (Apache, BSD, GPL, LGPL), copyrights and copylefts, Patents Economics of FOSS : Zero Marginal Cost, Income-generation opportunities, Problems with traditional commercial software, Internationalization

10.00

Case Studies: Apache, BSD, Linux, Mozilla (Firefox), Wikipedia, Joomla, GCC, Open Office.

12.00

Starting and Maintaining an Open Source Project, Open Source Hardware, Open Source Design, Open source Teaching and Open source media.

12.00

Open source vs. closed source Open source government, Open source ethics. Social and Financial impacts of open source technology, Shared software, Shared source

ESSENTIAL READINGS: 
  • Kailash Vadera, Bhavyesh Gandhi, “Open Source Technology”, University Science Press, 1st edition, 2009.
REFERENCES: 
  • Fadi P. Deek, James A. M. McHugh, “Open Source Technology and Policy”, Cambridge University Press, 1st edition, 2008.
  • Andrew M. St. Laurent, “Understanding Open Source and Free Software Licensing”, O’Reilly, Annotated edition, 2004.
Academic Year: 
2015-16
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