Free/open
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General
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"i don't find these graphical interfaces very clear"
- PDF: BERRYMOSS-LibreCulture2008.pdf - Libre Culture: Meditations on Free Culture. Edited by David M. Berry and Giles Moss.
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Participatory_culture - an opposing concept to consumer culture — in other words a culture in which private individuals (the public) do not act as consumers only, but also as contributors or producers (prosumers). The term is most often applied to the production or creation of some type of published media. Recent advances in technologies (mostly personal computers and the Internet) have enabled private persons to create and publish such media, usually through the Internet. Since the technology now enables new forms of expression and engagement in public discourse, participatory culture not only supports individual creation but also informal relationships that pair novices with experts. This new culture as it relates to the Internet has been described as Web 2.0. In participatory culture "young people creatively respond to a plethora of electronic signals and cultural commodities in ways that surprise their makers, finding meanings and identities never meant to be there and defying simple nostrums that bewail the manipulation or passivity of "consumers."
- https://archive.org/details/GuerillaOpenAccessManifesto - Aaron Swartz
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open-source_model - a decentralized software development model that encourages open collaboration. A main principle of open-source software development is peer production, with products such as source code, blueprints, and documentation freely available to the public. The open-source movement in software began as a response to the limitations of proprietary code. The model is used for projects such as in open-source appropriate technology, and open-source drug discovery. Open source promotes universal access via an open-source or free license to a product's design or blueprint, and universal redistribution of that design or blueprint. Before the phrase open source became widely adopted, developers and producers used a variety of other terms. Open source gained hold with the rise of the Internet. The open-source software movement arose to clarify copyright, licensing, domain, and consumer issues.Generally, open source refers to a computer program in which the source code is available to the general public for use or modification from its original design. Open-source code is meant to be a collaborative effort, where programmers improve upon the source code and share the changes within the community. Code is released under the terms of a software license. Depending on the license terms, others may then download, modify, and publish their version (fork) back to the community.
Fields
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_knowledge
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_content
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_data
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_access
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_research
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_science
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_science_data
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_notebook_science
Standards
Software
- Software Freedom Conservancy - Software Freedom Conservancy is a not-for-profit charity that helps promote, improve, develop, and defend Free, Libre, and Open Source Software (FLOSS) projects. Conservancy provides a non-profit home and infrastructure for FLOSS projects. This allows FLOSS developers to focus on what they do best — writing and improving FLOSS for the general public — while Conservancy takes care of the projects' needs that do not relate directly to software development and documentation.
- switching.software - Ethical, easy-to-use and privacy-conscious alternatives to well-known software
- Open Source Guides - Open source software is made by people just like you. Learn how to launch and grow your project.
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_commercial_open-source_applications_and_services - The purpose of this table is to provide reference information about the provenance and history of notable commercial open-source applications, adopting Business models for open-source software, alphabetized by the product/service name. It is not to be used or interpreted as an advertisement for the vendors.
- Choose an open source license | Choose a License - An open source license protects contributors and users. Businesses and savvy developers won’t touch a project without this protection. [5]
- https://github.com/fossology/fossology - FOSSology is an open source license compliance software system and toolkit. As a toolkit you can run license, copyright and export control scans from the command line. As a system, a database and web ui are provided to give you a compliance workflow. License, copyright and export scanners are tools used in the workflow.
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/License_proliferation - the phenomenon of an abundance of already existing and the continued creation of new software licenses for software and software packages in the FOSS ecosystem. License proliferation affects the whole FOSS ecosystem negatively by the burden of increasingly complex license selection, license interaction, and license compatibility considerations.
- YouTube: How Open Source Projects Survive Poisonous People - Google Tech Talk, Ben Collins-Sussman & Brian W. Fitzpatrick
- OpenHatch - a non-profit dedicated to matching prospective free software contributors with communities, tools, and education.
Guides
- The Open Source Way - a somewhat opinionated, guidebook for anyone interested in managing open source communities. It collects best practices for initiating, nurturing, growing, and maintaining groups of passionate contributors. The Open Source Way 2.0 refreshes pre-existing materials on these topics.
Articles
Hardware
Content
Licenses
- http://choosealicense.com/ - from gh
- SPDX License List | Software Package Data Exchange (SPDX) - a list of commonly found licenses and exceptions used in free and open source and other collaborative software or documentation. The purpose of the SPDX License List is to enable easy and efficient identification of such licenses and exceptions in an SPDX document, in source files or elsewhere. The SPDX License List includes a standardized short identifier, full name, vetted license text including matching guidelines markup as appropriate, and a canonical permanent URL for each license and exception.
- https://spdx.dev/wp-content/uploads/sites/41/2020/04/easier_than_you_think.pdf
- SPDX 2.2.1 - This specification describes the SPDX® language, defined as a dictionary of named properties and classes using W3C's RDF Technology.SPDX® is a designed to allow the exchange of data about software packages. This information includes general information about the package, licensing information about the package as a whole, a manifest of files contained in the package and licensing information related to the contained files.
- https://github.com/spdx/license-list-data
- https://github.com/spdx/tools-python - A Python library to parse, validate and create SPDX documents.
- TLDRLegal - Lookup popular software licenses summarized at-a-glance.
Permissive
BSD
MIT
ISC
Unlicense
- Software Engineering Stack Exchange: licensing - What is wrong with the Unlicense?
WTFPL
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Copyleft
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyleft - the practice of offering people the right to freely distribute copies and modified versions of a work with the stipulation that the same rights be preserved in derivative works down the line.[1] Copyleft software licenses are considered protective or reciprocal, as contrasted with permissive free software licenses.
GPL
- Adding Terms to the GPL - Paul H. Arne
Creative Commons
Cooperative Source License
- https://github.com/cooperativesource/license - The Cooperative Source License
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- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contributor_License_Agreement - defines the terms under which intellectual property has been contributed to a company/project, typically software under an open source license.
- Open Standards for Data Guidebook - Open standards for data are reusable agreements that make it easier for people and organisations to publish, access, share and use better quality data.This guidebook helps people and organisations create, develop and adopt open standards for data.It supports a variety of users, including policy leads, domain experts and technologists.
- Big Time Public License 2.0.0 — /dev/lawyer - a software license that’s free for noncommercial and small-business use, with a guarantee of fair, reasonable, and nondiscriminatory terms for big-company users.
- https://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/Copyfarleft - based on a critique of the approach by Creative Commons and other Copyleft approaches.A more recent development along similar lines is Copyfair. Copyfarleft is specifically limited to worker-owned entities and cooperatives, which some may find restrictive. So Copyfair addresses more generically the relations between commons communities and the market entities working with them, expecting reciprocity in exchange for commercial rights (note from Michel Bauwens)"The main argument advanced in the essay is that artists can not earn a living from exclusivity of "intellectual property" and that that neither copyleft licenses like the GPL, nor "copyjustright" frameworks such as the creative commons, can help."
- Copyfair - P2P Foundation - an evolution of the Copyfarleft concept. Michel Bauwens: "The Copyfair is a principle which aims to re-introduce reciprocity requirements in market activities it aims to preserve the right of sharing knowledge without conditions but aims to subject commercialization of any such knowledge commons to some form of contribution to that commons. So the aim is to create 'ethical' entrepreneurial coalitions, consisting in preference in 'generative' entities such as cooperatives, solidarity economy entities, social entrepreneurship or any not-for-profit mission-oriented or purpose driven entity, which constitutes itself around a knowledge commons (mutualization of productive knowledge), and contribute to this commons to which they are all co-dependent."
- https://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/Peer_Production_License - The peer production license is an example of the Copyfair type of license, in which only other commoners, cooperatives and nonprofits can share and re-use the material, but not commercial entities intent on making profit through the commons without explicit reciprocity. This fork on the original text of the Creative Commons non-commercial variant makes the PPL an explicitly anti-capitalist version of the CC-NC. It only allows commercial exploitation by collectives in which the ownership of the means of production is in the hands of the value creators, and where any surplus is distributed equally among them (and not only into the hands of owners, shareholders or absentee speculators). According to Dmytri Kleiner, co-author of the license with the barrister John Magyar, it’s not a copyleft license, but instead copyFARleft, and is intended for consumer goods or commodities rather than capital or producers’ goods.
Open Data Commons
Free
- https://github.com/44bits/awesome-opensource-documents - This is not a list of free programming books. This is a curated list of open source or open source licensed documents, guides, and books which can be read, used, modified, translated, redistributed and even rewritten under their same license.