Your open source toolset
Mike Linksvayer, April 2nd, 2007
Last fall we mentioned a great post by Wikipedia leader (and now CC board member) Jimmy Wales on why free knowledge requires free software and free file formats.
Now Wikipedian Erik Möller weighs in with a practical post on Wikimedia’s open source toolset, which may be seen as a paean to open source media creation software generally (Wikipedia leading the way).
Erik specifically calls out Inkscape, a drawing application with contributions from now CC employee Jon Phillips (his open source contributions were crucial to getting a job here).
Inkscape also happens to have a built-in feature enabling CC licensing of drawings, something we hope to see in many more content creation applications.
Related posts:
- Free? Open? Content? Expression?
- The Politics of the Adoption of Open Source
- Inkscape
- Creative Commons @ Open Source Pavilion @ Siggraph this week in Boston
- KRUU, open source radio