On 07/06/16 12:47, Vitaly Repin wrote:

Hello,

I came with a little bit strange question here. Has anybody ever heard about any organizations which provide formal trainings / certification in open source / free software expertise?

I do not mean the technical expertise in specific open source software. But rather the OSS contributions / licensing issues - e.g., to know what is the difference between copyright and copyleft, what is the difference between AGPL, GPL and LGPL, why it is a bad practice to copy the code from open source project into closed-sourced project without looking to the licenses etc.

If somebody is accredited as a developer with a large project like Debian that is usually a sign that they have a strong grasp of these concepts.

Regards,

Daniel

Hello all

On 7 de junio de 2016 12:47:33 GMT+02:00, Vitaly Repin vitaly_repin@fsfe.org wrote:

Hello,

I came with a little bit strange question here. Has anybody ever heard about any organizations which provide formal trainings / certification in open source / free software expertise?

I do not mean the technical expertise in specific open source software. But rather the OSS contributions / licensing issues - e.g., to know what is the difference between copyright and copyleft, what is the difference between AGPL, GPL and LGPL, why it is a bad practice to copy the code from open source project into closed-sourced project without looking to the licenses etc.

Thanks in advance!

In Spain some Universities have offered Master Degree on Free Software, including legal aspects, project managements tools and policies, case studies...

I studied one of them in Universidad Rey Juan Carlos ( www.urjc.es ) in 2010/2012. The teaching materials were licensed with freedom document licenses, all in english, and are still available in:

git.libresoft.es/libreteaching

(the mswl-* folders correspond to each academic year's subjects, for the different years they offered the master).

Unfortunately that master programme is not offered anymore.

Another University that offered similar studies is Universidad Oberta de Catalunya ( www.uoc.es ). I believe all their teaching material is free licensed too, and in English available, but they don't offer those studies anymore. I think their master was more sysadmin-oriented but it also included some legal aspects. There are some subject with material published in Spanish and Catalan, for example:

http://ocw.uoc.edu/informatica-tecnologia-y-multimedia/aspectos-legales-y-de...

The Free Technology Academy offers some modules:

Concepts of Free Software and Open Standards Economic aspects of Free Software Legal aspects of the Information Society

http://ftacademy.org/courses

Probably some law or library faculties offer some master degrees or courses about software/content licenses too.

Best regards

El Tue, Jun 07, 2016 at 01:47:33PM +0300, Vitaly Repin deia:

Hello,

I came with a little bit strange question here. Has anybody ever heard about any organizations which provide formal trainings / certification in open source / free software expertise?

I do not mean the technical expertise in specific open source software. But rather the OSS contributions / licensing issues - e.g., to know what is the

I don't really know them, but I've seen news/ads of a private work training high school (is that name correct for bac+5?) in France :

http://www.opensourceschool.fr/programme/panorama-du-bac-5/

They speak exclusively of open source, not free software, not logiciel libre, but they include some licensing and economics stuff. Most seems to be specific software or programming languages or so on. And they claim they attain some ministry certification (Niveau I RNCP de l'EPSI).