"The younger generation of developers increasingly eschews formal licensing requirements for their GitHub projects, a trend Redmonk analyst James Governor calls "post open source software." While some will celebrate a full 77% of GitHub projects going commando on licensing, new research from Black Duck Software suggests that this license-free approach comes with as much as $59 billion in hidden costs."
Continue here: GitHub's Wild West Approach To Licensing Has Hidden Costs <http://readwrite.com/2013/07/16/githubs-wild-west-approach-to-licensing-has-hidden-costs>. See also: Open Source Is Old School, Says The GitHub Generation <http://readwrite.com/2013/05/15/open-source-is-old-school-says-the-github-generation>. An infophraphic about this http://www.blackducksoftware.com/resources/infographics/deep-license-data Because of some points raised in a recent thread here. I'd like to see this research. Tom -- Everton Zanella Alvarenga (also Tom) OKF Brasil - Rede pelo Conhecimento Livre http://br.okfn.org _______________________________________________ okfn-discuss mailing list okfn-discuss@lists.okfn.org http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/okfn-discuss Unsubscribe: http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/options/okfn-discuss
