Stef, I think that's closer to the truth. In the past, there was a greater expectation of "finished-ness" before you'd post something and call it an open source project. The gap between what people put in a full Github repo and what they toss in a Gist seems to narrow every year, and I do like this.
I don't think the Github Generation (ugh) doesn't care about licensing, it's just easy to not get around to unless someone pokes you about it or you go through a formal release. I'm surprised Github hasn't taken a more active approach to goading people to add a LICENSE the way they do a README and a .gitignore. choosealicense.com is well done, but very passive because they used Jekyll and stuck to what JS could do (copy license text to clipboard). On Sun, Jul 21, 2013 at 3:29 PM, stef <s...@ctrlc.hu> wrote: > 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 > -- Developer | sunlightfoundation.com
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