FLOSS

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FLOSS is "Free-Libre-Open-Source-Software" that can be used, studied, and modified without restriction, and which can be copied and redistributed in modified or unmodified form either without restriction, or with minimal restrictions only to ensure that further recipients can also do these things. In practice, for software to be distributed as free software, the human readable form of the program (the "source code") must be made available to the recipient along with a notice granting the above permissions. Such a notice is a "free software licence", or, in theory, could be a notice saying that the source code is released into the public domain.

book: Open Cultures and the Nature of Networks, Felix Stalder, 2005

reads: Copyleft, Richard Stallman, 1980's

reads: The beyond story when One-Laptop-Per-Child became One-License-Per-Child, Ivan Krstić, 2008

FLOSS+ART referred to the spirit of FLOSS and adopting FLOSS tools to create artworks,
listed topics here stem from a recent call to FLOSS articles by goto10 |open mute |piet zwart institute:

- opening digital art's practice, code and culture

- FLOSS communities VS. art collectives

- digital art licensing, copying and distributing, using open content models

- role of the artist in FLOSS development

- influence of FLOSS on digital art practices

- free software to produce art and the art of producing free software

- economy of an open digital artwork

- FLOSS as an embedded political message in digital art

- paradox and limitations of open licenses for digital art

- FLOSS as a way to quote and embed other artworks in a new one

- digital artist as a FLOSS developer/user and vice-versa

- definitions and manifestos for a free software art