The culture war at the heart of open source
Steve Klabnik,
Apr 02, 2019
It's interesting to see that some of the issues we've had around open educational resources have also been at play in the world of free and open source software. Steve Klabnik authors two posts (first, second) on the subject. Here's the crux: people are concerned not just about the redistribution of software, but also (and mainly) about the production of software - that users of open source contribute to the community, fix bugs, include documentation, etc. Licenses, for the most part, don't speak about the mechanism of production, which allows companies to abuse them but complying with the letter, but not the spirit, of free and open software.
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