[OSList] Culture Technology Wants to Be Free

Daniel Mezick via OSList oslist at lists.openspacetech.org
Fri Oct 17 12:49:38 PDT 2014


Dear Chris,

Thank you for sharing your thoughts and feelings, about open source 
licensing for culture technology, such as Open Space.

Kind Regards,
Daniel

On 10/17/14 3:42 PM, Chris Corrigan wrote:
> 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 
> <mailto: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 unde/r a 
>> Creative Commons/
>> /Noncommercial-Attribution 3.0 license,//meaning what is said above 
>> about free shar//i//ng//. 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
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> 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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