Should you copyleft?
Underneath the acronyms, these movements all turn on one question: who may use, study, change, and share software and knowledge, and on what terms. Participants learned the background and principles behind movements like self-archiving, anonymous FTP archives, copyleft, foss/floss, the FSF, free culture, read-write/remix culture, and open access. We discussed the disagreements and tensions between the various value-based and apolitical philosophies. Participants read and talked about these ideas, picked one or more to stand behind, and wrote a paper in response.
Key references: Free Culture. L. Lessig. Penguin, 2004. The Cathedral and the Bazaar. E. S. Raymond. O’Reilly, 1999.