Hi Raniere,

Thank you for sharing.

I opened the report and immediately Ctrl-F'd for 'heritage'; I'm a
little disappointed it returned nothing...  But I will still take a
look at this report.

I'm very interested in the perspective where software is viewed as
heritage, as developed by this project:
https://www.softwareheritage.org/

By heritage we mean cultural heritage (within the meaning of Unesco).
I'm also interested in reassessing the so-called 'digital commons' as
commons.  We have been identifying free software and software in the
public domain with 'digital commons.'  I think this is actually not
accurate: Either it is too casual, or it is wishful thinking.  We
might get there (I don't see any incompatibility at this point), but
we are not there yet; we may want to build on top of, say, FLOSS
licensing, or we may want to refactor pro-sharing licenses on the
basis of cultural rights (again, within the meaning of Unesco) [1, in
French].

Indeed, free software licenses grant *individual* freedoms (which is
great, but there is no collective dimension) and software in the
public domain is virtually 'open bar' (so there is no management or
governance whatsoever).  Of course, some communities of practice do
organize informally and, sometimes, formally.  In a recent seminar [2,
in Italian], I have praised the yt project for pushing the definition
of its community and formally recognizing contributions which are not
copyrighted or copyrightable material: for example, "yt has a model in
place for recognizing contributions that go beyond code" [3].

So, FLOSS or Open Science are not collective (and, therefore, not
cultural) *by design.*  What makes commons commons (i.e., the social
practice of sharing them within a collective project or with a
collective vision) is not baked into FLOSS licensing or even Open
Science philosophy (the latter may be arguable; if you haven't so
already, please read Titus's piece [4]).

To develop this view, I'm borrowing tools and concepts from political
philosophy.  To advance it further, I'd be happy to collaborate with
people from this list or elsewhere, especially now that I have lost my
job!

Cheers,
Marianne

[1] 
https://scinfolex.com/2017/08/23/cinq-raisons-de-refonder-les-licences-libres-sur-les-droits-culturels/
[2] https://framagit.org/mkcor/software-libero/blob/master/notes/02_comunita.md
[3] 
https://medium.com/@matthewturk/the-royal-we-in-scientific-software-development-9deea495b3b6
[4] http://ivory.idyll.org/blog/2016-what-is-open-science.html

On Mon, Nov 6, 2017 at 9:29 AM, Raniere Silva <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I came across this report about open source software sustainability and
> though it was interest and worth sharing. A summary is available here.
>
> Cheers,
> Raniere
>
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