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History and background: Early models of software licensing, Stallman, GNU, etc, free as in speech, Cathederal & Bazaar, etc
Licence models: closed source, shareware, freeware, freemium, GPL (inc versions), BSD, Apache, Mozilla, MIT, PD, CC,etc
Open vs closed - arguments for and against open and closed options
Comparisons and debates: issues and factions within the FOSS community, libre vs open, etc
Legal and ethical issues: using open source
Governance models: central vs decentralized, etc
Development models
Management and Implementation: issues of maintenance, management, version control, forks and branches, etc
Profit models, monetization, commercialization, hybrid models, economics of open source, etc
Costing and valuing - identifying the real costs of open source, different measures of value (e.g. control, social good,
Integration and standards
Security issues and concerns
Documentation issues and approaches