Giovanni Bono said:
"Hello. Thanks for the very short term answer. The project is intended as documentation for advancements in economic theory. Economic theory study optimal solutions to general collective choice problems. Among these, the collective choice problems implied by the production of codified -- almost freely reproductable -- knowledge. So called 'digital goods' -- including software -- fall in this category. The solution discussed in the literature are formal statements -- called general mechanisms. The instruments developed by the free software community -- licences, institutions, procedures -- to address problems in the creation of common resources can be interpreted as applied mechanisms. Thus economic theory could be of use -- hopefully -- in the design or at least in the study of such applications. The project is intended more as a service -- knowledge repository -- than as a way of expressing my point of view -- which i would do in a different context. The free software community could benefit -- again hopefully -- from having a collection of the formal results alongside possible contexts of interpretation. Feedback from the community would help economists in developing the models toward practically relevant problems. With regard to the licence, i was thinking of the public domain -- a notice like http://creativecommons.org/licenses/publicdomain/ -- given the academic nature of the project. I believe the creativecommons notice would be perfectly valid in my country -- Italy. Anyway i agree that the choice of the public domain could be troubling. I would choose instead a GNU FDL licence -- with no use of the invariant sections. Regards, giovanni" _______________________________________________________ This item URL is: <http://gna.org/task/?func=detailitem&item_id=1206> _______________________________________________ Message posté via/par Gna! http://gna.org/
