Free, Open, Licentious…
...the liberties of the Open Innovation
New ways of publishing and distributing artistic or technical creations, and contributing to collective projects or works have appeared. When these activities take place within a framework of openness and exchange, we talk about Open Innovation. This is the case with projects like GNU, Linux, Mozilla, Apache, The GIMP, MySQL, Amarok, OpenOffice, YAMPP, or more recently OpenMoko – all referred to as Open Source software or electronic designs.
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Extra info / Update
Open-source portal
o General information
http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyleft
http://opencollector.org/Whyfree/
http://opencollector.org/Whyfree/vilbrandt.html
http://www.presence-pc.com/tests/Le-Hardware-Open-Source-112/
http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portail:Logiciels_libres
http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/FLOSS
http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Source_Initiative
http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gnu
http://www.linux-france.org/article/these/cathedrale-bazar/
http://features.linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=1999-06-22-005-05-NW-LF
o A bit of history
http://www.gnu.org/gnu/gnu-history.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_free_software
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_software#History
o Licences
http://fr.creativecommons.org/
http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.fr.html
http://www.gnu.org/licenses/fdl.html
http://www.freebsd.org/copyright/freebsd-license.html
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/opensource/library/os-freebsd/
http://www.microsoft.com/resources/sharedsource/default.mspx
o Free and open source software
http://www.linux-foundation.org/
o Free and open source hardware
http://www.ddj.com/web-development/184415121
http://www.theoscarproject.org/
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