[pp.int.general] Petition to the White House on mandating Open Access for publicly funded research

[Daniel Mietchen]

I made the same comment upon seeing a draft of the petition, but they
did not want to change it at this point, and I think going halfway on
this issue is better than staying where we are.

However, one of the most common (and most quickly growing) avenues to
achieve Open Access is by publishing the articles under CC BY, which
provides for redistribution and other forms of reuse.

Daniel

On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 4:45 AM, Richard Stallman <rms at gnu.org> wrote:
> Disappointingly, this petition for public access fails to mention
> freedom to redistribute the articles.  It only goes half-way.
>
> It's one of those easily avoidable mistakes that people make only
> because they are following others who made the same mistake.
>
>
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