Hello. Thanks for the very short term answer. The project is intended as documentation for advancements in economic theory. Economic theory study optimal solutions to general collective choice problems. Among these, the collective choice problems implied by the production of codified -- almost freely reproductable -- knowledge. So called 'digital goods' -- including software -- fall in this category. The solution discussed in the literature are formal statements -- called general mechanisms. The instruments developed by the free software community -- licences, institutions, procedures -- to address problems in the creation of common resources can be interpreted as applied mechanisms. Thus economic theory could be of use -- hopefully -- in the design or at least in the study of such applications. The project is intended more as a service -- knowledge repository -- than as a way of expressing my point of view -- which i would do in a different context. The free software community could benefit -- again hopefully -- from having a collection of the formal results alongside possible contexts of interpretation. Feedback from the community would help economists in developing the models toward practically relevant problems.
With regard to the licence, i was thinking of the public domain -- a notice like http://creativecommons.org/licenses/publicdomain/ -- given the academic nature of the project. I believe the creativecommons notice would be perfectly valid in my country -- Italy. Anyway i agree that the choice of the public domain could be troubling. I would choose instead a GNU FDL licence -- with no use of the invariant sections. Regards, giovanni > > Update of task #1206 (project admin): > > Approval Status: None => Need Info > Should Start On: => dim 30.01.2005 à 00:00 > Should be Finished on: => lun 14.02.2005 à 00:00 > Assigned to: None => yeupou > > _______________________________________________________ > > Follow-up Comment #1: > > Hello. > > In several countries, it is not possible for an author to decide to put its > work into public domain. For that reason, we'd like you to choose a license > for your work. If you want to put your work in public domain, choosing a > modified BSD-like license should probably be ok. Can you select a license (and > add appropriate licensing information in your work). > > Apart from that, Gna! is focused on libre software projects. It means that we > want to help software and documentation development. We can accept to host > projects that are not really software or documentation directly but that > promotes free software, that are directly linked to it. But we would probably > not host political projects that are only partly inspired by free software. > I'm not sure which category qualifies your project. > > > _______________________________________________________ > > This item URL is: > > <http://gna.org/task/?func=detailitem&item_id=1206> > > _______________________________________________ > Message posté via/par Gna! > http://gna.org/ giovanni bono .................................................................. research fellow Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche phd student Università degli Studi di Milano Dottorato di Ricerca in Scienze Economiche .................................................................. mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] web http://www.dse.unibo.it/bono/ http://www.economia.unimi.it/~bono/ ..................................................................
