Archive for the ‘Open Source’ Category
OCLC Research Moves to ASL 2.0
I’m pleased OCLC is, from now on, going to release it’s open source software under the Apache 2.0 license. With the proliferation of open source licenses, they are right that yet another variation makes it more difficult on people using open source licenses (to figure out what each one means and which licenses are, or [...]
The Gift Economy
Interesting article at Newsforge on the Gift Economy. Like most other new articles on gift cultures, it cites the scientific community as an example. While this is true in the “perfect world” sense, I always wonder how much of the “exchange economy” has crept into the way science is done.
The first person I heard talking [...]