TY - JOUR T1 - Free as in Adjective, Not as in Verb JF - Open Source Business Resource Y1 - 2007 A1 - Amos Hayes AB - Open source provides an avenue for distributing academic research well beyond the covers of journals or the lunchtime chatter of sharp-minded thinkers to a much broader audience. Interestingly, the choice of open source license is often a choice of community. By understanding the goals and underlying philosophy of a research project, one is better equipped to find a suitable license and attract a community with similar interests. This article provides an examination of a particular academic research project's licensing goals and presents some of the lessons learned during the license selection process. PB - Talent First Network CY - Ottawa UR - http://timreview.ca/article/69 IS - October 2007 U1 - Carleton University Amos Hayes is a technical specialist turned researcher and manager at the Geomatics and Cartographic Research Centre (http://gcrc.carleton.ca) at Carleton University. A good part of his work is to help turn the ideas of researchers from a whole host of different academic disciplines into a set of technical capabilities for an open source community atlas framework. ER -