Open Access to Information. Free Licenses

Software Development Using Open Source and Free Software Licenses

The purpose of open source and free software licensing is to permit and encourage the involvement by licensees in improvement, modification, and distribution of the licensed work. This open development model of software development is the unique strength of the open source and free software movement. While the open source and free software licenses already discussed approach open software devel...

Free Open Access

Open Content Licenses

Open source licenses such as the GPL are designed as licenses for software. Although they can be used for other types of content such as books, a set of licenses called open content licenses have been developed for documents of various kinds. This chapter examines the reasons why such licenses have been developed and looks at some typical examples.

Open Access to essential health care information

Open Access publishing is a valuable resource for the synthesis and distribution of essential health care information. This article discusses the potential benefits of Open Access, specifically in terms of Low and Middle Income (LAMI) countries in which there is currently a lack of informed health care providers - mainly a consequence of poor availability to information. We propose that without...

Retrieving Open Source Software Licenses