Readings related to libre knowledge/chronology

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  • 1909: w:Mahatma Gandhi: One of Gandhi's earliest publications, Hind Swaraj published in Gujarati in 1909 is recognized as the intellectual blueprint of India's freedom movement. The book was translated into English the next year, with a copyright legend that read “No Rights Reserved”.[1]
  • 1954: Arthur Hays Sulzberger, Man's right to knowledge and the free use thereof, University of Hawaii, Occasional Paper 61, Honolulu.[6]
  • 2001: Fle3 announcement - "Fle3 - libre software for (libre) knowledge building"[7] - an example of use of the term (libre) knowledge generalising from libre software to libre knowledge.
  • 2002 (at the latest): The first Hipatia manifesto was published in Spanish. The current English version and a second manifesto are available on the Hipatia web site.
  • 2000-2004: w:Lawrence Lessig has published several books, ultimately motivating the w:free culture movement, which provide background and discuss the tension between a desired free, read/write Internet culture versus the permission culture of control via legal and technical means. These include Free Culture,[9] Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace,[10] Code: Version 2.0[11] and The Future of Ideas.[12]
  • 2006: Yochai Benkler published w:The Wealth of Networks[14] which expands on the concept of commons-based peer production and implications.
  • 2007: Charlotte Hess and Elinor Ostrom edited a book called "Understanding Knowledge as a Commons: from theory to practice" which reflects current interest in this phenomenon and some of the history of the w:knowledge commons.[15]
  • 2007: Kim Tucker released the Say "Libre" essay encouraging people in the "open" community to use the adjective libre to disambiguate free and instead of "open" where applicable (i.e. when describing resources released under licences which grant the four core freedoms).[16]

  1. "Would Gandhi have been a Wikipedian?". w:The Indian Express. 17 January 2012. http://www.indianexpress.com/news/would-gandhi-have-been-a-wikipedian/900506/0. Retrieved 26 January 2012.
  2. F. A. Hayek, 1945. "The Use of Knowledge in Society," American Economic Review, 35(4), pp. 519-530.
  3. Schiff, Stacy (July 31, 2006). "Know It All". The New Yorker. http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2006/07/31/060731fa_fact. Retrieved October 31, 2008.
  4. 4.0 4.1 Mangu-Ward, Katherine (June 2007). "Wikipedia and beyond: Jimmy Wales' sprawling vision". Reason 39 (2): p. 21. http://www.reason.com/news/show/119689.html. Retrieved October 31, 2008.
  5. van Doren, M. 1954. Man's right to knowledge and the free use thereof. Columbia University, New York.
  6. Sulzberger, Arthur Hays. 1954. Man's right to knowledge and the free use thereof, University of Hawaii Occasional Paper 61, Honolulu.
  7. Leinonen, Teemu. 20 Nov 2001. Fle3 - libre software for (libre) knowledge building, accessed on 27 September 2007.
  8. Gay, Joshua (ed). 2002: Free Software, Free Society: Selected Essays of Richard M. Stallman. Boston, Massachusetts: GNU Press. ISBN 1-882114-98-1. Also available over the web in PDF, Texinfo, and Postscript formats.
  9. Lessig, L. 2004. Free Culture: How Big Media Uses Technology and the Law to Lock Down Culture and Control Creativity. Penguin Books.
  10. w:Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace (2000) (ISBN 978-0-465-03913-5, Basic Books, New York)
  11. w:Code: Version 2.0 (2006) (ISBN 978-0-465-03914-2, Basic Books, New York)
  12. w:The Future of Ideas (2001) (ISBN 978-0-375-50578-2, Random House, New York)
  13. Coase's Penguin or w:Linux and w:The nature of the firm a paper by w:Yochai Benkler defining what is, and how w:commons-based peer production works, along with a long study of what motivates contributors.
  14. w:Yochai Benkler (2006):The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom, Yale University Press.
  15. Hess C. and Ostrom E. (eds.). 2007. Understanding Knowledge as a Commons: from theory to practice. MIT Press, Cambridge Massachusetts.
  16. Tucker K., 2007. Say "Libre", also published on libre.org.
  17. Berry, D. M & Moss, G. (2008). Libre Culture: Meditations on Free Culture. Canada: Pygmalion Books