This morning I came across Stacy Cowley's article GPL 3: An Open Source Earthquake?. As a member of OGC Consortium, the group responsible for developing geospatial interoperability standards, I've suggested review of their standards' ownership, branding and licensing.
Stanford Center for Internet and Society
In the heart of the Silicon Valley, legal doctrine is emerging that will determine the course of civil rights and technological innovation for decades to come. The Center for Internet and Society (CIS), housed at Stanford Law School and a part of the Law, Science and Technology Program, is at the apex of this evolving area of law.
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Open Source Licensing - Revisioning the Good
by Bruce B. Cahan, posted on January 30, 2007 - 10:04am.
Drawing the Light Blue Line on Global Warming
by Bruce B. Cahan, posted on January 24, 2007 - 1:30pm.
This week, I was contacted by www.LightBlueLine.org and www.Canary-Project.org to help draw a line throughout New York City tracing the perimeter for a 40-foot sea wall that would have to be built to keep out oceans that (unless Global Warming is curbed quickly) are estimated to rise 7 meters from today's levels. Light Blue's already tracing Santa Barbara's risk of rising sea levels (inset).
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