On Sun, Jul 21, 2013 at 02:27:12PM -0300, Everton Zanella Alvarenga wrote: > "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.
actually i wonder if there is a quantitative change at all. isn't it more like in the past all these non-licensed tools where hidden away in local repositories, and only by the virtue of making it so easy to publish and have a gitrepo on github they all come public? -- pgp: https://www.ctrlc.hu/~stef/stef.gpg pgp fp: FD52 DABD 5224 7F9C 63C6 3C12 FC97 D29F CA05 57EF otr fp: https://www.ctrlc.hu/~stef/otr.txt _______________________________________________ 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