'creative commons' Tag

• Closed-source papers on open source communities: a problem and a partial solution

  June 12, 2011

  In the Wikipedia research community — that is, the group of academics and Wikipedians who are interested in studying Wikipedia — there has been a pretty substantial and longstanding problem with how research is published. Academics, from graduate students to tenured faculty, are deeply invested and entrenched in an system that rewards the publication of [...]

  posted in Blog Posts, Wikis by R. Stuart Geiger

• How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Attribution-ShareAlike

  July 24, 2008

  Content on my website and my Flickr account has been licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives license for a while.  I was pretty proud of myself.  But then I got to thinking: why don’t I choose Attribution-ShareAlike?  Obviously, it was product of two kneejerk reactions: I don’t want someone else to make money off my [...]

  posted in Blog Posts by R. Stuart Geiger

• Why aren’t the GPL and the GFDL freely licensed?

  May 23, 2008

  Works licensed under the GPL and the GFDL can be modified and then freely redistributed, as long as the modified versions are released under the same conditions. Why are we not allowed to modify these licenses and redistribute them?

  posted in Blog Posts by R. Stuart Geiger