emanresu Posted February 14, 2005 Share Posted February 14, 2005 I know this can be construed as advertising but I thought it might get a laugh :D How can beer be open source?The recipe and the whole brand of Our Beer is published under a Creative Commons license, which basically means that anyone can use our recipe to brew the beer or to create a derivative of our recipe. You are free to earn money from Our Beer, but you have to publish the recipe under the same license (e.g. on your website or on our forum) and credit our work. You can use all our design and branding elements, and are free to change them at will provided you publish your changes under the same license ("Attribution & Share Alike"). Can large companies market Our Beer? Yes, they are free to use our recipe at will - but they also have to comply with the licence and publish their version of the recipe under the same Creative Commons license. This requirement is to keep the beer "free" so everyone has the freedom to improve the recipe based on the work of others. Who are "we"? We are "Vores ?l Group", a group of students at the IT-University in Copenhagen and have created Our Beer in collaboration with Superflex as an experiment in applying modern open source ideas and methods on a traditional real-world product (beer). Check it out at http://www.voresoel.dk/main.php?id=70 Citizen of US Minor Outlying Islands Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
renic Posted February 24, 2005 Share Posted February 24, 2005 is this going to change the meaning of the term "free as in beer"? lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted February 24, 2005 Share Posted February 24, 2005 Nice post! I'll drink to that, cheers. :thumbsup: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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