Readings related to libre knowledge/chronology


 * 1909: 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”.


 * 1945: The Use of Knowledge in Society - F. A. Hayek. Jimmy Wales (co-founder of Wikipedia) cites this book, which he read as an undergraduate, as "central" to his thinking about "how to manage the Wikipedia project". Hayek argued that information is decentralized - that each individual only knows a small fraction of what is known collectively - and that as a result, decisions are best made by those with local knowledge rather than by a central authority.


 * 1954: Mark Van Doren (book): "Man's right to knowledge and the free use thereof".


 * 1954: Arthur Hays Sulzberger, Man's right to knowledge and the free use thereof, University of Hawaii, Occasional Paper 61, Honolulu.


 * 1974: Computer Lib/Dream Machines (1974) by Ted Nelson describes some tenets of the hacker ethic.


 * 1984: Steven Levy, ''w:Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution, Doubleday, USA. Dell, 1994, with a new afterword. Penguin Books, New York, 2001.


 * 2001: Pekka Himanen, The Hacker Ethic and the Spirit of the Information Age with a prologue by Manuel Castelles, an epilogue by Linus Torvalds and an appendix on the history of hackerism.


 * 2001: Fle3 announcement - "Fle3 - libre software for (libre) knowledge building" - 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.


 * 2002: The Budapest Open Access Initiative called for "open access" to research in all fields.


 * 2002: Software, Free Society: Selected Essays of Richard M. Stallman.'' - a collection of essays by Richard Stallman which explains the philosophy of libre software, the foundation of the philosophy of libre knowledge and libre culture.


 * 2000-2004: Lawrence Lessig has published several books, ultimately motivating the 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, Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace, Code: Version 2.0 and The Future of Ideas.


 * 2004: Quo vadis, libre software?, Jesús M. González-Barahona, v0.8.1, September. Archived on 25 December 2012.


 * 2004: Jimmy Wales's blog posting: "Free Knowledge requires Free Software and Free File Formats". This blog posting provides a rationale for the libre knowledge movement to use libre file formats.


 * 2004: Yochai Benkler published "Coase's Penguin" introducing Commons-based peer production a new mode of production for the 21st Century.


 * 2005: Benjamin Mako Hill. “Towards a standard of freedom: Creative Commons and the free software movement”.


 * 2006: David M. Berry and Giles Moss. The politics of the libre commons, First Monday, volume 11, number 9 (September 2006).


 * 2006: Yochai Benkler published The Wealth of Networks 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 knowledge commons.


 * 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).


 * 2008: Berry, D. M & Moss, G. (2008). Libre Culture: Meditations on Free Culture. Canada: Pygmalion Books.


 * 2009: FCF developed the Charter for Innovation, Creativity and Access to Knowledge. A Libre Interpretation was also prepared which also orientates towards sustainability as a goal. A version of the latter using the word "free" rather than "libre" is available on the Free Knowledge Institute wiki.


 * 2011: Chris Sakkas, Share This Book: a quick introduction to libre.