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Clarification needed on Module 4 Lesson 3 #881

Open kyuenjpl opened 2 weeks ago

kyuenjpl commented 2 weeks ago

In the diagram that shows the "Openness is a spectrum", the user can click on the individual circles for more details on the different types of licenses.

The current wording which are supposed to be from more open to more closed is actually quite confusing:

  1. "Permissive"-Gives users wide but not complete latitude to reuse/relicense.
  2. "Non-permissive"- Allows users to reuse, but also gives users the responsibility to share their changes with the community.
  3. "Copyleft"-Can be distributed or modified if all the code involved is licensed under the same license.

This is followed by showing only 2 main types of open licenses Permissive and Protective (copyleft). When I teach this in person, it comes off contradictory. May I suggest changing the language under the permissive to say simply "Gives users wide latitude to reuse/relicense."

And perhaps omit non permissive altogether or explain it somewhere more thoroughly? I looked for details on what non-permissive as a type of license and did not find any mentions or examples. The description used for non permissive actually applies better as a description for "copyleft".

bressler95tops commented 2 weeks ago

Thank you for the suggestion @kyuenjpl! We will add this to our queue for disposition and will let you know if we have any questions, or how we implement the change.