[open-bibliography] Crowdsourcing bibliographic data

William Waites william.waites at okfn.org
Tue Aug 17 15:12:42 UTC 2010


 On 10-08-17 16:00, Thomas Krichel wrote:
>>   * Hence Bibliographica, which aims to be a free, open source,
>> scalable service
>   What is an "open-source service"?

My understanding is "a service that runs only on
free software" so you can download the software
and run your own version of the service if you
like. The AGPL [0] tries to codify this in legal terms.

Cheers,
-w

[0] http://www.gnu.org/licenses/agpl-3.0.html

-- 
William Waites           <william.waites at okfn.org>
Mob: +44 789 798 9965    Open Knowledge Foundation
Fax: +44 131 464 4948                Edinburgh, UK

RDF Indexing, Clustering and Inferencing in Python
		http://ordf.org/




More information about the open-bibliography mailing list