Skill: Intellectual Property (IP) and software licensing

Understanding Intellectual Property (IP) - who owns or controls creative work (including software) - and software licensing as the legal mechanism that grants others the right to use, modify or distribute software.

Related skills

• Legal and regulatory responsibility

Learning resources

• Choose an open source license - Choose an open source license
• Licensing - The Turing Way - The Turing Way
• OLS Lesson - OLS
• TLDRLegal - TLDRLegal

Methodologies

• Free and open source licences