[okfn-discuss] The GitHub generation

Tue Jul 23 03:58:55 UTC 2013

On 21/07/13 12:29, stef wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 21, 2013 at 02:27:12PM -0300, Everton Zanella Alvarenga wrote:
>> "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.
>
> actually i wonder if there is a quantitative change at all. isn't it more like
> in the past all these non-licensed tools where hidden away in local
> repositories, and only by the virtue of making it so easy to publish and have
> a gitrepo on github they all come public?

Probably. And the source of the story is Black Duck...

- Rob.