The Open Research Framework

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28 points·dannyrosen··9 comments

Many consider CC BY SA not open either. Minimum CC BY, or CC0 e.g. http://oaspa.org/why-cc-by/

CC BY SA is the best license to use for research. It's like the GPL, but for non-software works. What's not to love about that? It's definitely a freedom-respecting license.

I would say even more so than CC0

Thanks for the feedback, I've opened it to Public Domain.

What do you mean by "public domain"? Many countries don't have a concept of a public domain (or it's not as well-established as in America). If you actually wanted to release it as public domain (or as close as possible) then use CC0.

But I still stand by saying that CC-BY-SA is the best license for academic works because it ensures that the work is always useful to future generations.

It give me a strange feeling with "Open" in title and documents in MS propriety file formats.

`.pptx` is the _Open_ Office Presentation Format. It's standardized by Ecma. It's not what I would call a proprietary file format.

It was designed by Microsoft to try to prevent the Open Document format (e.g. odp in this case) from getting traction. Microsoft's patent license prevents free implementations. And it supports BLOBs which essentially renders it non-open.

Exactly this!

MSFT just lobbied and pushed their formats, scared of .odp, .odt to gain great traction, when many organizations (including governments) considered using open formats instead of proprietary ones.

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