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Open Source and Open Science - a happy partnership?FOSS Backstage 20232023-03-13
Argues that open science must adopt open source practices but not blindly, showing concrete gaps: university incentives favor patents and prepublication peer…
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Update on licensing - "not really" open source licensesFOSS Backstage 20222022-03-17
Examines how the Commons Clause bans selling and hosting and how the SSPL forces disclosure of cloud management code beyond the program itself, aiming to stop…
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Practical Trademark Law For FOSS ProjectsFOSS Backstage 20222022-03-17
Trademark is brand not code: registration gives a territorial monopoly for specific goods, costs a few hundred dollars in many countries and takes three months…
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FOSS compliance in university R+D projects and tech transferFOSS Backstage 20212021-02-10
Universities routinely produce usable research software but often lack license inventories, centralized repos or long-term storage, so a pilot implements…
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Freeing software with governance, for public administrationsFOSS Backstage 20212021-02-10
Two case studies compare a legacy municipal case-management system and a fresh AI prototype to show what actually works: GD Matrix is a monolithic system built…
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