Open Scholarship is made possible with Free Software

"Many of the Open Access Initiatives across the world had expressed the need for having supported “tools and assistance" for the establishment of repositories (literature archives and data archives), and to launch open access journals, as many as possible. However, the need for complete freedom to publish and disseminate the knowledge resources without the restriction is only possible when the end-to-end system is built on the principles of Free Software and Knowledge commons....

With the growing momentum of Open Access, the communities and organizations who believe in Open Scholarship and Public Good are contributing for the development of e-infrastructure which is available as free as in freedom...."