Την ερχόμενη εβδομάδα θα έχουμε τη χαρά να έχουμε μαζί μας ως επισκέπτρια τη Δρ. Γεωργία Καπιτσάκη, Επίκουρη Καθηγήτρια του Τμήματος Πληροφορικής του Πανεπιστημίου Κύπρου (Department of Computer Science, University of Cyprus).
 
Στο πλαίσιο της επίσκεψής της, την Τετάρτη 4/12, στις 12:00, στην αίθουσα Ι4 του Τμήματος Πληροφορικής και Τηλεπικοινωνιών (κάτω κτήριο) η Δρ. Γ. Καπιτσάκη θα πραγματοποιήσει διάλεξη με θέμα:

• Άδειες Λογισμικού Ανοιχτού Κώδικα - Προτεινόμενες Άδειες

Στη διάλεξη θα προηγηθεί και σύντομη παρουσίαση του Τμήματος Πληροφορικής του Πανεπιστημίου Κύπρου.

Με εκτίμηση,
Τμηματικοί Υπεύθυνοι Erasmus

Ακολουθούν η περίληψη της διάλεξης και ένα σύντομο βιογραφικό σημείωμα της ομιλήτριας, στην αγγλική γλώσσα.

Licenses in open source software – recommending licenses
Short description: Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) has offered a boost in emerging technologies, allowing users to use freely publicly available software and developers to incorporate third party software libraries into their implementations. Various open source communities consisting of active developers and bug fixers for specific projects can be encountered online. The terms under which the software has become available and is provided for use are depicted in the corresponding licenses. Licenses express how the software can be utilized by the potential users differentiating between rights and obligations of the users. This talk will provide information on the issues of open source licensing discussing the challenges of modelling open source licenses and of recommending appropriate licenses for a software product, whereas license compliance will also be examined. License modelling is important, as the text of open source licenses consists of natural language that is not easy to interpret. The issue of license compliance is linked with license violations that are encountered, when a software project integrates content from various sources that may carry different, and sometimes, conflicting licenses. In this talk, we will elaborate on the automation of the procedure of recommending appropriate licenses to software engineers in the framework of findOSSLicense.

Short bio: Georgia M. Kapitsaki is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Computer Science of the University of Cyprus. She received her PhD from the National Technical University of Athens, Greece (2009). Her research interests include: Software Engineering, Open source software, Privacy Enhancing Technologies and Context-aware Applications. She has published over 40 papers in international conferences and journals, has participated in conference organisation (e.g. ICSR 2016) and has served as a TPC member and referee in journals and conferences. She has been involved in EU FP6 and FP7 projects and has worked as a software engineer in the industry. She has been a Mentor in Google Summer of Code 2018 and 2019. She is the Representative of the University of Cyprus at GFOSS Open Technologies Alliance since 2017.