Open Source Study
In 2006, a blue-ribbon group of higher education leaders convened by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, and chaired by Stanford University’s President John Hennessy, issued a report “Software and Collaboration in Higher Education: Study of Open Source Software.” Below are excerpts from the report:
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“We should reiterate what we mean by ‘open source software.’ We use this term to refer to software for which the source code is made available for others to use, view, modify, and redistribute… Open source software can… be produced through a centralized, controlled approach.” “We have good reason to believe that universities and colleges could collectively produce open source software that meets their needs better than commercial products.” “Software and Collaboration in Higher Education: Study of Open Source Software.” |
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REGEIS believes there is much merit in the findings of the Open Source study cited above and is amendable to exploring a restricted “open code” arrangement with a limited number of higher education institutions or a state system.
The institution would have a perpetual right to use/modify the code. The only restriction is that the institution would be prohibited from redistributing the code with any entity outside the institution, without express written consent from REGEIS.
For an agreed-upon one-time license fee, REGEIS would make the source code available and provide a perpetual license for the institution to use, view, and modify the code.
Interested institutions may contact REGEIS:
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