User:Chriswaterguy/Blog/Licensing for Open Source Appropriate Technology

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For Open Source Appropriate Technology, we strongly recommend either:

The CC-by-sa license (Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike)

or public domain.

That's speaking on behalf of myself and the Appropedians I discuss this with, including Prof Joshua Pearce (see his paper...) Vinay Gupta (creator of the Hexayurt Project, which releases its work as public domain. I.e. explicitly relinquishing all copyrights.

Friends who share this philosophy of sharing include:

Open Source Ecology [1]
AIDG [2] - Appropriate Infrastructure Development Group.
Alanna Shaikh's development blog, Blood and Milk, licensed as CC-by.^[1] Blood and Milk looks at what works and what doesn't in international development - i.e. the principles of development. That's important when looking at appropriate technology - which is about understanding context rather than simply applying technology.

Why this matters

Watch out for...

Please avoid using additional restrictions which reduce the free flow of knowledge - see

So what do I do?

Declare

CCWiki howtos

Footnotes

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↑ CC-by serves just as well - it lies between CC-by-sa and public domain, requiring attribution but not requiring derivative works to follow the same license.

[1] CC-by serves just as well - it lies between CC-by-sa and public domain, requiring attribution but not requiring derivative works to follow the same license.

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