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Radical Open Source – Licensing and MPL 2.0

Is Mozilla Foundation fostering a more radical open source approach?

To read my thoughts on open source licenses, have a look at my previous posts here and here .

By introducing the MPL 2.0 license , the Foundation probably intended to work for their community, even though, as a side-effect, they have done much more than this.

Interestingly enough, also because he’s an OSI director,  Simon Phipps has concluded his post focusing on the new MPL 2.0 license with the following statement:  : “I welcome the MPLv2 as a positive contribution to unifying the common cause of many open source developers.… Read the rest

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Radical Open Source – Licensing

I’ve already posted something about this here.

Now, I’ll go straight to the point!

Proliferation of Open Source licenses is a complete mess, despite initial good intentions (anyway, not all open source licenses are used to foster openness of code and collaboration).

Why so many licenses? Many reasons! (the list of open source licenses here just takes into consideration the OSI approved ones!). Now, are authoritative organizations (including OSI) ready (or willing) to foster a convergence of the existing licenses to one single (or to very few) simplified licenses?… Read the rest

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Radical Openness

Next Ted Global 2012 is going to address Radical Openness. They say: “The world is becoming increasingly interconnected and open. Radically open — manifesting itself in open borders, open culture, open-source, open data, open science, open world, open minds. With the loss of privacy that it implies, openness carries its own dangers. But it breeds transparency, authenticity, creativity and collaboration.”

I think that now it’s the right time to collect some ideas, effective suggestions and to move a step forward!… Read the rest