202312080000, December 8, 2023

  • The platformisation of software development: Connective coding and platform vernaculars on GitHub #Github #opensource
    • I’m still tracking down Open Source 2.0 as a concept. This mention of “post-F/OSS” is perhaps one example

    • They propose the concept of post-F/OSS to describe a platform culture that co-exists alongside F/OSS and proprietary coding. This comprises widespread practices of publicly posting mundane code projects without a licence and with little to no documentation to help users understand these projects. According to Fuller et al., this ‘general indifference to the discussions of and loyalty to certain kinds of licences and the sense of ethics (GPL) or business models (Open Source) that these drew upon’ (2017: 58), marks a departure from the F/OSS movement’s practices.

  • How could open licensing protect democracy? #licensing #EUPL
    • The EUPL is new to me, a good read