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Open Source Beer Served Cold, With a Heated Licensing Discussion

Posted by samzenpus on from the drink-up dept.

sethopia writes "Sam Muirhead enjoys a couple of open source beers and delves into their licenses (Creative Commons BY-NC-SA) and the recent CC Non Commercial license controversy. As Sam writes, 'Depending on your point of view, the Non Commercial license is either the methadone that can wean copyright junkies off their all-rights-reserved habit, or it is a gateway drug to the psychedelic and dangerously addictive world of open source and free culture.'"

3 of 112 comments (clear)

  1. Re:What's next? by CodeheadUK · · Score: 4, Informative
    Already done.

    http://www.jibble.org/cookies.php

  2. Re:What's next? by Dr_Barnowl · · Score: 3, Informative

    Open source cola has already been done too.

  3. Re:Which meaning of "free"? by realityimpaired · · Score: 4, Informative

    no we don't.

    Recipes aren't copyrightable. Any recipe you can find is "free as in freedom".