Sorting Out the Sharing License Shambles | Techdirt

abernard102@gmail.com 2012-08-20

Summary:

“At the heart of the various movements based around sharing -- free software, open content, open access etc. -- lie specially drawn-up licenses that grant permissions beyond the minimal ones of copyright. This approach has worked well -- too well, in fact, since it has led to a proliferation of many different licenses: the Open Source Initiative recognizes over 60 of them for open source. That's a problem because slight incompatibilities between them often make it impossible to create combined works drawing on elements released under different licenses. To reduce these incompatibilities there has been a general move towards license simplification...”

Link:

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120110/07201317364/sorting-out-sharing-license-shambles.shtml

Updated:

08/16/2012, 06:08

From feeds:

Open Access Tracking Project (OATP) » abernard102@gmail.com

Tags:

oa.new oa.licensing oa.comment oa.floss oa.libre oa.creative_commons

Authors:

abernard

Date tagged:

08/20/2012, 15:20

Date published:

01/31/2012, 09:47