My bookmarks are overflowing, so per Sumana’s suggestion I’m compiling the pieces I’ve been reading on the topic of modern free and open source software practices, licensing, and ethical concerns. Links are roughly organized by topic. Note that some of these go back a few years.
Software licensing
- Ethics Enforcement Via Software Licenses Considered Harmful, Karl Fogel
- Good and not Evil: the Advent of Ethos Licensing, Heather Meeker
- Heather Meeker on “Ethos Licensing”: free and open is ethos licensing, too, Kyle E. Mitchell
- Open Source Licenses and the Ethical Use of Software, Christie Koehler
- Toward Community-Oriented, Public & Transparent Copyleft Policy Planning, Bradley M. Kuhn
- 6 myths about “ethical” open source licenses, Chris Jensen
Governance
- Governing the Software Commons, Shauna Gordon-McKeon
- Keep Your Friends Close, James Vasile and Karl Fogel
The future of free and open source software movements
- Creating a Third Wave of Free/Open Source Software, Audrey Eschright (me!)
- Open Source is Broken, Don Goodman-Wilson
- What comes after “open source”, Steve Klabnik
Sustainability
- Chasing Quick Fixes To Sustainability, Bradley M. Kuhn and Karen M. Sandler
- Health care, Molly de Blanc
- We need Sustainable Free and Open Source Communities, Adam Jacob
- What does a sustainable open source project look like?, Andrew Nesbitt
Philosophies
- Freedoms and Rights, Molly de Blanc
Let me know what I missed! My email address is below.