MetaFilter posts tagged with OpenSource and creativecommons

The Open-Source Train Moves Forward

Artful Codger — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 20:04:42 -0800

What could be less important to the blue than a news item involving model railroading and Java? Yet in an important decision, a U.S. Appeals court has ruled that that the terms of the Artistic License are enforceable copyright conditions. "For non-lawgeeks, this won't seem important but this is huge," said Stanford Law Professor Larry Lessig. The Java Model Railroad Interface is an open-source project of software in Java for use in controlling model railroads. For the past few years, according to the JMRI website, the project and its leader have been under legal attack by a commercial competitor, who has allegedly used project code in a commercial product in violation of the license terms, has received a patent without proper disclosure of prior art, and has engaged in litigation against the JMRI project and its chief maintainer. Is this an important victory? Lawrence Lessig seems to think so.

The story of a giant rabbit

tellurian — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 19:14:50 -0800

Big Buck Bunny - a fantastic animation. It's also on YouTube, but the download is so much better.

I'll drink to that...

betobeto — Tue, 12 Jul 2005 22:21:49 -0800

Free Beer! ...but free as in "Open Source Beer", mind you. Students from Copenhagen's IT-University have produced and released a powerful beer recipe under a Creative Commons license. Microbrewers, start your machines...

Creative Commons launches

bkdelong — Mon, 16 Dec 2002 06:01:08 -0800

Open Source Copyright. As a follow-up to this thread, Creative Commons has now officially launched. I'm quite interested to see the various content creators who take these licenses and run with them - amateur filmmakers, independent musicians, authors, writers, and technologists .....should have groups like the MPAA and RIAA quaking in their boots.