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5th-6th April: Open Source Software Licensing Workshop for Software Developers

Building Sustainable Software Projects by Using Good Licensing Practices

Open-Source Software (OSS) is broadly used in almost all software development projects in the GÉANT project, and so good practice of using appropriate licenses is crucial to protect GÉANT applications and organisation.

What you will learn

This course provides a practical dive into the open-source licensing and compliance practices. The course is led by OSS experts: Andrew Katz and Alex Murphy from Orcro Limited. By applying what you explore in this class, you will be able to:

  • Apply general open-source licensing concepts subject to a permissive, copyleft or non-open-source licence
  • Combine components under different licences into a single application.
  • Select components for your project, based on the licence applicable and other criteria.
  • Determine whether components under different licences are compatible based on a license matrix
  • Detecting incompatibilities and other issues using WhiteSource (now Mend) compliance tooling
  • Apply criteria involved in selecting an out-licence for a project using both a manual selection process (using a component spreadsheet) and compliance tooling (WhiteSource – now Mend).

Course Overview

Who should attend
This course has been designed for software developers and engineers who are contributing to open-source projects and/or developing internal projects. It is also recommended to leaders responsible for the development tasks in the GÉANT project

Pre-requisites
If you did not attend the Open-Source Software Licensing workshop earlier this year, you can find the recording and slides from that workshop on eAcademy. These will give you a good introduction to this practical class.

Delivery Method
Live Online Session:

Duration: 8 hours live online (over 2 days with short breaks)

Eligibility: This course is primarily open to contributors to the GÉANT project.

Group size: Max 30 people

Please register on Indico: https://events.geant.org/event/1389/

Training will be delivered via Zoom. Facilitated by ORCRO. A recording of the training will be made available on GÉANT’s online learning platform, eAcademy.

Agenda

Day 1, 5th April 2023

10:30Welcome, (re)introductions, training overview.
10:45Introductory poll & quiz
11:00Learning to apply open source licensing concepts for permissive, copyleft, or non-open source code
11:45Q&A
12:00Short Break
12:15Learning when components (under different licences) can be combined into a single application
13:00Licence combination quiz
13:15Q&A
13:30Lunch break
14:30Automated tools introductory poll
14:45Leveraging automated tools (Mend) to detect incompatibilities
15:15Automated tools Q&A and quiz
15:30Wrap-up and end of day 1

Business case Preparation


The facilitator introduces a real life GÉANT business case the participants will use in the skills practice session on day 2.

Day 2, 6th April 2023

10:30Welcome back, review of day 1, overview of remaining training
10:45Day 1 review quiz
11:00Learning to select components for your project, based on applicable criteria
11:30Component selection quiz
11:45Short Break
12:00Learning to apply criteria involved in selecting an out-licence (manually + with Mend)
12:30Practical licence selection activity
13:15Q&A
13:30Wrap-up and end of day 2

 

 

 

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