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Course Basics

Copyright © 2015 Bart Massey

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• open source:

  • Legal:
    • Source code is out there (to the Public)
    • Source code can be used under "permissive" license:
      • Use as you will: "Open Source"
        • Open Source Initiative, BSD or MIT licenses
      • Must make changes available: "Free Software"
        • Free Software Foundation, GPL
    • Source code can be extended and republished
  • Practice:
    • Open to developer contributions
    • Open governance

• Choosing a project:

  • Interest: Will you still care about this in 7 weeks?
  • Scope: Can you do it in 8 weeks?
  • Incremental: Can you do something cool in 2 weeks?
  • Uniqueness: What's the relation to existing stuff?
  • Multiple-Use: Can you use this project for more than this class?
  • Modular: Is it all "of a piece" with strong coherence and week coupling?
  • Choose quickly!