[Commons-Law] Fwd: [Reader-list] Bibliography on the Ethics of Free Software

[Pranesh Prakash]

Dear All,
Jamie Dow, a Research Fellow at the IDEA CETL of the University of Leeds
(working on interdisciplinary ethics) has asked for his mail (below) to be
forwarded to Commons-Law.  He's putting together a bibliography of "serious
academic work" on "the ethics of F/LOSS", and would like to share it, and
get some help in improving it.  Please do mail back with suggestions as to
material (or even as to other, more pertinent mailing lists).

Regards,
Pranesh

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Jamie Dow <J.Dow at leeds.ac.uk>
Date: Mon, Jun 9, 2008 at 23:14
Subject: [Reader-list] Bibliography on the Ethics of Free Software
To: reader-list at sarai.net


Dear listmembers,
This post is partly for information, partly to see if this information can
be improved upon. It's a bibliography of serious academic work on the ethics
of Free (Libre) and Open-Source Software - but mainly Free Software.

The bibliography is pasted below - I know that this is an issue on which
many on this list take a keen interest. I hope this is a useful source to
you.

I'd be interested to hear of any important or good pieces that you know of
that are not listed here.

In that connection, I'm interested specifically on the *ethics* of free and
non-free software (so history of the movement, technical evaluations, and
sociological analysis are not relevant here. Legal stuff on licensing can go
either way - I'm only interested in jurisprudential stuff that deals with
the ethical issues.).

Best wishes, Jamie Dow


*Free Software Bibliography*



_2 Classics:_

Raymond, Eric (2001) /The Cathedral and the Bazaar, 2/^/nd/ / Edition,
/O'Reilly.

Stallman, Richard M (2002) /Free Software, Free Society/, (Intro by Lawrence
Lessig, edited by Joshua Gay) Cambridge, MA: Free Software Foundation.



_General (lightly vetted, and simply in the order they came to me):_

Falquet, G and Grin, F (2008) "Free Software, Proprietary Software and
Linguistic Justice" in eds. Gosseries, A, Marciano, A and Strowel, A (2008)
/Intellectual Property and Theories of Justice/, London: Macmillan.

Nissenbaum*,* Helen (1995) "Should I copy my Neighbour's Software?" in eds.
Nissenbaum, H & Johnson, D (1995) /Computers, Ethics and Social Values/,
Prentice Hall, pp.201-213.

Lerner, Joshua and Tirole, Jean (2000) /The Simple Economics of Open Source
(NBER working paper series), /NBER.

Kimppa, Kai K. (2005) "Intellectual Property Rights in Software—Justifiable
from a Liberalist Position? The Free Software Foundations Position in
Comparison to John Locke's Concept of Property", in Richard A. Spinello and
Herman T. Tavani (eds.), /Intellectual Property Rights in a Networked World:
Theory and Practice/, Hershey, PA: Idea Group Publishing.

Kimppa, Kai K. (2004) "Intellectual Property Rights – or Rights to the
Immaterial – in Digitally Distributable Media Gone All Wrong?", in Lee
Freeman and Graham Peace (eds.), /Information Ethics: Privacy and
Intellectual Property/, Hershey, PA: Idea Group Publishing.

Kimppa Kai K. (2007) /Problems with the Justification of Intellectual
Property Rights in Relation to Software and Other Digitally Distributable
Media: PhD thesis/, May 2007. Available (in part) at:
http://www.tucs.fi/publications/attachment.php?fname=DISS83.pdf_

Tavani, Herman T. (2004) "Balancing intellectual property rights and the
intellectual commons: a Lockean analysis", /Information, Communication and
Ethics in Society,/ 2: S5–S14

Tavani, Herman T. (2005) "Locke, Intellectual Property Rights, and the
Information Commons", /Ethics and Information Technology,/ 7:87–97

DiBona,Chris; Ockman, Sam and Stone, Mark (1999) /Open Sources : Voices from
the Open Source Revolution/, Sebastopol, CA: O'Reilly Media Inc..

DiBona, Chris; Stone, Mark and Cooper, Danese (2005) /Open Sources 2.0 The
Continuing Evolution, /Sebastopol, CA: O'Reilly Media Inc..

Sunstein, Cass R. (2006) /Infotopia: How Many Minds Produce Knowledge/, New
York: Oxford University Press. Esp. ch 5.

Moglen, Eben (2003) /Freeing the Mind: Free Software and the Death of
Proprietary Culture, /
http://moglen.law.columbia.edu/publications/maine-speech.html.

Moglen, Eben (2003) /The dotCommunist Manifesto, /
http://emoglen.law.columbia.edu/publications/dcm.html

Berry, David M. (2004) "The Contestation of Code: A Preliminary
Investigation into the Discourse of the Free/Libre and Open Source
Movements", /Critical Discourse Studies/ 1 (1): 65–89.

Berry, David M., and Moss, Giles (2006) "Free and Open Source Software:
Opening and Democratising E-Government's Black Box", /Information Polity/
11:21–34.

Cusumano, Michael; Shirky, Clay; Feller, Joseph; Fitzgerald, Brian; Hissam,
Scott A. and Lakhani, Karim R. (eds.) (2005) /Perspectives on Free and Open
Source Software,/ Cambridge: MIT Press.

Weber, Steven (2004) /The Success of Open Source,/ Cambridge: Harvard
University Press.

M. Wolf (moderator), D. Gotterbarn, K. Bowyer, and K. Miller. (2002) "Open
Source Software: Intellectual Challenges to the Status Quo"/,/ /ACM, SIGCSE
2002/, Cincinnati, OH (March 2, 2002).

F. Grodzinsky, K. Miller and M. Wolf. (2004) "Ethical Issues in Open Source
Software", /Readings in Cyberethics 2/^/nd/ /edition,/ R. Spinello and H.
Tavani, eds. Jones and Bartlett, 2004. 351-366. (reprinted conference paper)

Miller, Keith (2007) "Open source software and consequential responsibility:
GPU, GPL, and the no military use clause", /APA Newsletter of Philosophy and
Computers/, Vol. 6, No. 2 (ed. Boltuc, P), 17-22.



_More towards Legal-Theory:_

Rosen, Lawrence (2004) /Open Source Licensing: Software Freedom and
Intellectual Property Law,/ Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice-Hall PTR.

St Laurent, Andrew (2004) /Understanding Open Source and Free Software
Licensing/, O'Reilly.

(The Eben Moglen writings may belong in this "legal" category.)

Zittrain, Jonathan (2004) "Normative Principles for Evaluating Free and
Proprietary Software", /Harvard Law School Public Law Research Papers,/ No.
98, available at http://ssrn.com/abstract=529862 .
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