Open source software licensing in AI assisted coding

Who owns the code that AI wrote?

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Course description

Under copyright law worldwide, software without an explicit license defaults to All Rights Reserved: nobody else may run, copy, modify, distribute, or build on your code. A software license is how the copyright holder exercises their exclusive rights, granting others permission to reproduce, distribute, modify, and sometimes sublicense the work.

Target audience

Anyone who writes or uses software (at an intermediate level)

Learning outcomes

  • Principles of open source licensing
  • Difference between permissive and copyleft licenses
  • Frameworks for AI-generated and AI-assisted code
  • Determine the software license for your project following EU copyright framework
  • Navigate the Joinup Licensing Assistant to select a compliant license
  • Understand the licensing distinction between container recipes and container images

Prerequisites 

  • Intermediate
  • This course is designed for anyone who writes software code, uses existing code, or plans to do so in the future

Required materials

  • Laptop

Lunch

  • There will be a complementary buffet-lunch at 12:00-13:00 from the Sverdrups spiseri (Georg Sverdrups Hus, 2nd floor).
  • After you get your lunch, join us at Store møterom where we have reserved seats for #DSDays2027 participants. 

Number of participants

30

Contact

If you have any questions regarding this course, or anything else about the DSDays 2027 event, please contact us per email: digitalscholarship@ub.uio.no

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Sabry Razick
Published Nov. 5, 2026 10:23 AM - Last modified Nov. 5, 2026 1:30 PM