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<div class="">thank you for bringing this up. I was not aware of this. </div>
<div class="">We are still operating 3.1. but in terms of having the possibility of an upgrade or not makes a big difference. </div>
<div class="">“Managed availability” does sound kind of concerning. </div>
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<div class="">How should we as a community proceed? </div>
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<div class="">On 28 Jun 2017, at 21:22, Tomasz Neugebauer <<a href="mailto:Tomasz.Neugebauer@concordia.ca" class="">Tomasz.Neugebauer@concordia.ca</a>> wrote:</div>
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<span style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13px;" class="">It is time to bring up the question of whether or not EPrints 3.4 and beyond is open source software.</span><br class="">
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<div class="">The answer to this question is determined by the license under which EPrints 3.4 is distributed.</div>
<div class="">These are Open Source software licenses: <a href="https://opensource.org/licenses" class="">https://opensource.org/licenses</a></div>
<div class="">EPrints 3.3 has a GPL license.</div>
<div class="">What about EPrints 3.4? Is it distributed under a GPL license?</div>
<div class="">I ask this, because Eprints Services keeps referring to something called "managed availability", is that a new license?</div>
<div class="">The name "managed availability" doesn't sound like the name of an open source license, but perhaps "managed availability" doesn't refer to a new (closed source?) license, and EPrints 3.4 is still distributed under a GPL license?<br class="">
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<div class="">What would be the equivalent of "managed availability" in the world of journal article availability? Not open access, right?</div>
<div class="">I think we deserve to have a clear answer to this, so that we can think about the implications for the community that has contributed to EPrints.</div>
<div class="">I saw on a slide from EPrints Services during the OR conference something like this:</div>
<div class="">"Open source software models have their limitations"</div>
<div class="">That may be so, but I, for one, am deeply committed to open source software in the open access repository space.</div>
<div class="">Open source is a value and a culture. It also has many advantages, and I probably don't need to list in detail on this list because you are all well aware of them, but let me just use a quote from a 2010 paper where I commented on my choice of
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