This week lecture is about Creative commons and Free/Libre open source software. The key words of the lecture such as community, collaboration, and choice give the primary ideas of what lecture intends to.
Community: when people share and do something good the whole community benefits.
Collaboration: Instead of going against copyright and breaking the law people can work together to create good things.
Choice: you have a choice and right to create and communicate using your computer as a computer user.
Creative commons is an internationally active non profit organization which was started in December 2002.
This organization allows people to share, reuse, repurpose, and remix creative material by providing a license that let creators give permission in advance for certain uses of their material. Every creative work is protected automatically by copyright. Also it prevents others from using the work in certain ways such as copying and putting online. Furthermore this organization uses voluntary tools to create a public good.
Open source software is computer software which for the source code and certain other rights normally reserved for copyright holders is provided under a software licence. This permits users to use, change, and improve the software, and to redistribute it in modified or unmodified forms. The open source software works according to the source code which tells the instruction written in programming languages that tell computer to do something.The free OS was called GNU. GNU public license which is a legal document that controls the limits of the software. The open source which attempt to push “free software” in to the business world which is replaced with open source that potrays on open not in free. VLC, firefox, Linux and open office are some of the free softwares
