[okfn-discuss] [open-science] SPARC author addendum uses CC-NC licence and now all hybrid publishers have followed

Fri Dec 23 17:17:23 UTC 2011

On Fri, Dec 23, 2011 at 5:59 AM, Peter Murray-Rust <pm286 at cam.ac.uk> wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 23, 2011 at 1:12 PM, Gael Varoquaux
> <gael.varoquaux at normalesup.org> wrote:
>> On Sun, Dec 11, 2011 at 06:53:50PM +0000, Rob Myers wrote:
>> > The GPL is the most widely used Free Software licence.
>>
>> It is going down:
>> http://blogs.the451group.com/opensource/files/gplusage.png
>
> Thanks - very useful.
>
> It would be useful to have similar (real) figures about Green Gold, libre
> etc in Open Access and not simply statements of hope

But speaking of real figures, it isn't clear how real the ones cited
are re FLOSS license use; AFAIK no raw data or methodology has been
provided. Tiny bit of discussion at https://lwn.net/Articles/446263/

Mike