This is old news now since it happened over a week ago, however, the continued discussion of this settlement is needed and hopefully welcomed.
I have been silent on this settlement on this site due to a few reasons (full disclosure):
I was at the Open Content Alliance’s (OCA) yearly meeting in the Presidio of San Francisco [...]
That isn’t me talking, that is the Library of Congress.
The Library of Congress along with the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC), the Open Access to Knowledge (OAK) Law Project, and the SURFfoundation released a report (pdf) on Monday that basically states just that.
The stated purpose of the report is:
to review the current state of copyright [...]
As a part-time bug triager, I’m always curious of the new tools out there that enable people to work better and more efficiently. One such new project, which I think has some real potential, is Stephan Hermann’s Leonov project.
Another thing which I just read in my news reader was the fact that Luca Nussbaum added [...]
So, why should LaunchPad (Malone) be open sourced?*
I’m not going to say because other groups need to use the bug tracking/code hosting/question answering/multi-project-resource unifying features. No, I do believe that it wouldn’t make much sense for there to be multiple Launchpads out there dealing with bugs/code/etc (maybe a little of sense, but not much).
That [...]
Yes, I have a job now. I currently work for the Scholarly Publishing Office at the University of Michigan Libraries.
Right now it is a pretty mundane job. I convert incoming articles to a standard format (there is a little bit more to it than just Open -> Save As). When I am [...]
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