Lecture 4 discusses the creative free culture and society by means of creative commons open source software. It talks about collaboration, community and choice. Even though, emphasis on creation of free culture and open source software, there should be acknowledgement of copy right. For instance, creative commons.org is a non profit organisation dedicated to promote reasonable copyright to balance between free culture and copyright laws.
The section of open source software talks about how the software develops by contribution from various people, it’s free for everyone to contribute and use. Open source software provides freedom to use it for any purpose, understand its operations, sharing it and freedom to improve it. However, there are some restrictions that control what we can do with free software such as GNU Public License. Other type of software involves proprietary software, in which code remains confidential. This is in contrast with open source software where codes are not confidential. Thus, open source software involves more freedom to use and contribute towards development of software for common good of everyone in the society and business world.
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