GitHub’s Wild West Approach To Licensing Has Hidden Costs

The GitHub generation doesn't seem to like the bother of licenses, but is it prepared to stomach the costs? (...) As new research from Black Duck Software shows, today's developers aren't just moving away from the General Public License (GPL). They're moving away from open-source licensing altogether. Analyzing over one million projects on GitHub and other code repositories, Black Duck Software found that while 40% of open-source projects industry-wide carry no declared license, 77% of projects on GitHub have no declared license, open source or otherwise.

Why We’re All in Open Source Now

Check this Wired-article on the GitHub-generation.

Dreams of ‘Open’ Everything

GitHub has big dreams for open source software and more.

Quentin Hardy for the New York Times.

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Posted: December 28, 2012
Tags: github new york times Open Access Quentin Hardy

GitHub for Biology: Build or Buy

When I describe Synapse, the software platform we are building at Sage Bionetworks, I use the analogy “It’s like GitHub for biologists” or “GitHub for data science” a lot. This seems to be useful, at least for the subset of people that I talk to that know what GitHub is. For the rest of you, in a nutshell GitHub is a set of online tools to make it super easy to share code and manage software development projects. It’s evolved into an active community where developers can quickly launch projects, contribute to or reuse existing projects, or recruit new developers to their projects. It’s got a particularly strong following in the open source community, but is also used by a number of major corporations to run at least some of their projects.

Another noteworthy project in the realm of Open Science. We will see how that one evolves.