On Feb 25, 2011, at 3:42 AM, Peter Murray-Rust wrote: > > But this is the price we willingly pay for FOSS. It means that we > can all use each others's software without worrying wheter we can > use if for teaching (yes, that's a commercial activity), include it > in books (yes, commercial), use in in company-funded projects in > academia (yes, that's commercial). So please DONT use NC. It takes a > bit of courage but it is worth it. > > The real benefit is that we create an ecosystem which is better > than the commercial offerings. We are now doing that. Jmol is used > everywhere (who buys a commercial viewer). Avogradro will do the > same. OSCAR is widely used. The Quixote project intends to > demonstrate a radically new approach to compchem knowledgebases that > will give everyone Libre access to compchem. >
Let me strongly agree with Peter. If the goal is to move science forward, it is essential to not only have low barriers to a wide variety of uses, but also a wide variety of re-uses. If you build something that has real utility, you will attract interest. There will always be many more users than contributors and how to turn users into contributors will always be a legitimate concern, but I think there is a lot of evidence that creating an ecosystem that innovates, solves problems, responds to questions, etc. works much better to encourage contributions than making people agree to detailed licenses. DanZ /******************************************** * Daniel Zaharevitz * Chief, Information Technology Branch * Developmental Therapeutics Program * National Cancer Institute * [email protected] * ********************************************/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Free Software Download: Index, Search & Analyze Logs and other IT data in Real-Time with Splunk. Collect, index and harness all the fast moving IT data generated by your applications, servers and devices whether physical, virtual or in the cloud. Deliver compliance at lower cost and gain new business insights. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Blueobelisk-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/blueobelisk-discuss
