Courses is a web application based on Rails and Backbone.js used to facilitate easy access of course information to students (such as, refering to course topics or checking assignments, project deadlines, etc.)
The application will be put up at courses.nitt.edu
Courses app is free, and distributed under the GNU General Public License (GPL) v3.0 or later. Essentially, this means that you are free to do almost exactly what you want with the program, including distributing it among your friends, making it available for download from your web site, selling it (either by itself or as part of some bigger software package), or using it as the starting point for a software project of your own.
The only real limitation is that whenever you distribute Courses app in some way, you must always include the full source code, or a pointer to where the source code can be found. If you make any changes to the source code, these changes must also be made available under the GPL.
For full details, read the GPL, found at www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html
Copyleft (?) - V. Shiva Nandan