[Commons-Law] open access source for Law

[sunil abraham]

Here is an extract of a mail from Dr. Arunachalam on the licenses for
open access.

Dear Sunil:

You are right.

Freedom 3. You don't modify someone else's research
paper. If you want to advance or modify or point out
an error, you write another paper!

Freedom 4. You may redistribute the original or just
alert the people to the archives so others can
download the original. 

You may read Stevan Harnad's writings on this subject.
He is known for his clarity and prodigious output. I
am marking a copy of this correspondence to him. 

Best wishes.

Arun

--- sunil abraham <sunil at mahiti.org> wrote: > 
Dear Dr.
Arunachalam,
Yes, I did read you mails with great access. And I
agree with you that here are many parallel between the open access and
open source movement. However I am newbie as far as open access
is concerned so please forgive my ignorance. I need a clarification
on the degree of freedom afforded in by license.

According to me:
 
Freedoms available in Open Access and Free Software
1. Freedom of use
2. Freedom of study

Freedoms available only in Free Software
3. Freedom to modify
4. Freedom to redistribute original and original +
modifications for
free or for a fee

Please confirm if this is true. If the Open Access
project provides all 4 freedoms I will devote time vehemently
evangelising for it. Otherwise the GPL seems to be a better license for
the collaborative production of knowledge.
 
Thanks,
 
Sunil
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