Slide about the FLOSS movement and a little reference to the Creative Commons project. Everything created for the webvalley students 2011 - http://webvalley.fbk.eu

1. The Open SourceThe Open Source
ParadigmParadigm
andand
IntellectualIntellectual
PropertyProperty
Maurizio Napolitano – napo@softwarelibero.it

2. Before to begin …
http://www.flickr.com/photos/tonikaarttinen/5687056556CC-BY-NC

3. Who is this guy?
Byasofyetunknownphotographerwhosoldrightstothepicturetolinuxmag.com[GFDL)orCC-BY-SA-3.0

4. and this?
ByCopyleft(Ownwork)orCC-BY-SA,viaWikimediaCommons

5. and this?

6. and this?
ByKarora(Ownwork)[CC0orPublicdomain],viaWikimediaCommons

7. these are famous people of the free
software/open source movement
Richard Stallman
Linus Torvald
Bruce Perens
Eben Moglen
Free Software Foundation
LINUX

8. … a step back:
O.S. applications
SOFTWARESOFTWARE
SOFTWARESOFTWARE
a pc without software is NOTHINGa pc without software is NOTHING

9. Like in the kitchen :)
how create software?

10. … in most of case
irreversible process

11. Some property
COPYABLE

12. Some properties
MANAGE INFORMATIONS

13. With some problems/restricions
2001 2011

14. … but some old information still
work
2011 A.C.

15. Doubt

16. … more functions … more
problems

17. born hackers & free software
1980
GNU IS NOT UNIX

18. What is free software?
is a software
that respects
the user freedom's

19. THE FOUR FREEDOM
Freedom 00: The freedom to run the
program for any purpose.
Freedom 11: The freedom to study how the
program works, and change it to make it
do what you wish.
Freedom 22: The freedom to redistribute
copies so you can help your neighbor.
Freedom 33: The freedom to improve the
program, and release your improvements
(and modified versions in general) to the
public, so that the whole community
benefits.

20. but free is an ambiguous word
FREE BEER
FREE SPEECH
VS
This is FREE software
This is NOT free software

21. I.P. - Intellectual Property
THINK CREATE→ → Authors' rights

22. The copyleft concept
rights over the
copies
give permission to copy
copyright
copyleft

23. General Public License
respects the four freedoms
and imposes two
constraints
●
Always mention the author
●
Derivative works must have
the same license
Eben Moglen “
Why Political Liberty Depends on Software Freedom More Than Ever” –
FOSDEM 2011
http://freedomboxfoundation.org/
OUTLINE

24. Like the researchLike the research
If I have seen further it is
by standing on ye
sholders of Giants.
Isaac Newton
Free as in Freedom: Richard Stallman's Crusade for Free Software Bob Young - REDHAT
also the opposite to reinvent the wheel

25. Open Source
Eric Raymond
http://www.opensource.org/
Bruce Perens

26. Open source connected with capitalismOpen source connected with capitalism
The Emerging Economic Paradigm of Open Source
http://perens.com/works/articles/Economic.h
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[…] Open Source can be explained entirely within the
context of conventional open-market economics. Indeed, it
turns out that it has much stronger ties to the
phenomenon of capitalism than you may have appreciated.

27. a licesing schema
Liberal
Create any work
No restriction on licensing
BSD License - Berkeley Software Distribution
License
MIT - Massachusetts Institute of Technology
License
Apache – Apache License
Corporate
Files derived from commons must use
same license
Files added may use any license
EPL - Eclipse Public License
MPL – Mozilla Public License
Copyleft
All files in project must use the same
license as the commons if any one file
from the commons is used in the project
Weak Strong
LGPL v2 – Lesser Gnu
Public License
GPL v2 - Gnu Public
License
EUPL 1.1 – European
Public License
„brand“
LGPL v3 – Lesser Gnu
Public License
GPL v3 - Gnu Public
License
AGPL v3 – affero Gnu
Public License

28. Examples ….Examples ….

29. Young entrepreneursYoung entrepreneurs (under30)
1. Mark Zuckerberg - $13.5 Billion
4. Blake Ross and David Hyatt - $120 Million
12. Matt Mullenweg - $40 Million
http://www.retireat21.com/top-young-entrepreneurs
2. Andrew Gower - Runescape $650 Million
3. Chad Hurley - Youtube $300 Million
[…]
5. Andrew Michael - Fast Hosts $110 Million
6. Angelo Sotira – DevianArt $75 Million
[...]

30. Open source = software quality
"given enough eyeballs,
all bugs are shallow"
Linus' LawLinus' Law
Eric Raymond – The Cathedral & the Bazaar

31. But … open source isn't easy
Source: Roberto Galoppini SOS Opensource

32. A good (italian) example
Have fortune
Implement standards
Dual licesing
Respect for the community
Fabrizio Capobianco

33. Business models
●
Support
●
Documentation
●
Customization
●
Talent scouting
●
Marketing
●
...

34. Understand open source
ecosystem
http://www.slideshare.net/55thinking/understand-open-source-ecosystems

35. Software development models
The Cathedral modelThe Cathedral model
code developed is
restricted to an exclusive
group of software
developers.
The Bazaar modelThe Bazaar model
the code is developed
over the Internet in view
of the public.

36. From the software to the content
… to the data http://www.opendatacommons.org
http://creativecommons.org
„Some rights reserved“
[creativity always]
„builds on the past“
http://www.archive.org/details/Justin_Cone_-_Building_On_The_Past_-_640x480