[OSList] Culture Technology Wants to Be Free

[Chris Corrigan via OSList]

Daniel…

“Open Space Technology” was created and released into the world long before the Creative Commons licenses were there to let everyone know that it is freely usable, shareable, with non-attribution.  People can remix it, sell it, create commercial products from it, rebrand it, create derivatives and remixes, steal it, liberate it, claim they invented it.  No one will sue them.  No one will enforce the “proper way of doing it.”  No one will charge them a license fee or serve them with a cease and desist order.

It may also be that other people have discovered Open Space as well, and that Harrison was not the only bright mind on the planet that saw how the Open Space of the Universe could be applied to meetings.

This is not a bug.  It is a feature.

Over the past 20 years of using Open Space Technology, the one thing it has taught me more than anything is a radical practice of generosity.

Nothing needs to be done about it.  The User’s Guide exists as a piece of work under copyright.  the process itself is for the world and from the world.  

Chris

On Oct 17, 2014, at 12:10 PM, Daniel Mezick via OSList <oslist at lists.openspacetech.org> wrote:

> Reference Link:
> http://newtechusa.net/agile/culture-technology-wants-to-be-free/
> 
> In researching Barcamp and Unconference formats, I discover that Barcamp and Unconference came much later and are in fact direct derivatives of Open Space, also known as "Open Space Technology", as in "Open Space Technology: A Users Guide."
> 
> We cannot act in the past. This sometimes leads to feelings of regret in the present moment. And so I wonder: what would the world look like if the bare essentials of Open Space were published under an open-source license... way, back, when?
> 
> What can be done about it today?
> 
> Because as Kári Gunnarsson points out, these four preconditions of the swarm invitation from Swarmwise by Rick Falkvinge look very like either a direct copy of Open Space, or a derivative work of the Open Space, specifically the meeting Invitation.
> 
> The book does has an index; no mention of Open Space. No bibliography. 
> 
> A quick check of Swarmwise by Rick Falkvinge reveals that the work is printed under a Closed-Source license. See for yourself:
> 
> ===========================================================
> http://falkvinge.net/files/2013/04/Swarmwise-2013-by-Rick-Falkvinge-v1.1-2013Sep01.pdf
> Formally, this book is under copyright monopoly until January 1, 2034 — twenty
> years from publication. During that time, it is licensed under a Creative Commons
> Noncommercial-Attribution 3.0 license, meaning what is said above about free sharing. These are the same terms as suggested in the author’s previous book, The Case for Copyright Reform. Commercial exclusive rights rest with the author for the twenty
> years.
> ===========================================================
> 
> According to Creative Commons, "This is not a Free Culture License". That is, not open source.
> 
> See for yourself. Follow this link and click "no" to the question:
> "Allow commercial uses of your work?"
> 
> https://creativecommons.org/choose/
> 
> ...click through further to see what "This is not a Free Culture license" actually means. It means this is NOT an open source license. 
> 
> There are some big announcements coming soon about people who are deliberately publishing culture-technology designs (patterns, structures, frameworks) under true open source licensing, either the GPL or CC-BY-SA-4.0. And for very excellent reasons. 
> 
> This is the second time I have seen culture technology designs published which co-opts items in the public domain, does not bring source documents forward, and does not give attribution to sources. All of which must be done when publishing under open source licensing.
> 
> Closed-source licensing for culture technology is a serious impediment to the development of innovative culture technology at a time when more, not less innovation is what we need. Culture technology wants to be free.
> 
> Reference Link:
> http://newtechusa.net/agile/culture-technology-wants-to-be-free/
> 
> 
> Daniel
> 
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> On 10/17/14 2:34 PM, Kári Gunnarsson via OSList wrote:
>> The four preconditions of the swarm invitation from Swarmwise by Rick Falkvinge. I find this oddly similar to the preconditions of Open Space.
>> 
>> 1. Tangible: You need to post an outline of the goals you intend to
>> meet, when, and how.
>> 
>> 2. Credible: After having presented your daring goal, you need to
>> present it as totally doable. Bonus points if nobody has done it
>> before.
>> 
>> 3. Inclusive: There must be room for participation by every spectator
>> who finds it interesting, and they need to realize this on hearing
>> about the project.
>> 
>> 4. Epic: Finally, you must set out to change the entire world for the
>> better — or at least make a major improvement for a lot of people.
> 
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