[okfn-discuss] The GitHub generation

Sun Jul 21 17:27:12 UTC 2013

"The younger generation of developers increasingly eschews formal
licensing requirements for their GitHub projects, a trend Redmonk
analyst James Governor calls "post open source software." While some
will celebrate a full 77% of GitHub projects going commando on
licensing, new research from Black Duck Software suggests that this
license-free approach comes with as much as $59 billion in hidden
costs."

Continue here: GitHub's Wild West Approach To Licensing Has Hidden
Costs <http://readwrite.com/2013/07/16/githubs-wild-west-approach-to-licensing-has-hidden-costs>.

See also: Open Source Is Old School, Says The GitHub Generation
<http://readwrite.com/2013/05/15/open-source-is-old-school-says-the-github-generation>.

An infophraphic about this
http://www.blackducksoftware.com/resources/infographics/deep-license-data

Because of some points raised in a recent thread here. I'd like to see
this research.

Tom

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Everton Zanella Alvarenga (also Tom)
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