[LUAU] Fwd: Ethics of Free / Open Source Software - CFP

[James A. Stroble]

Hello, all!   

In the midst of the heated debate over "free" and "formerly known as open-source" software, I thought would pass along a call for papers from the academic journal Ethical Perspectives, just as a matter of interest.   This is the first such CFP that I have seen that specifies ODT as the preferred file format for submissions.
	Andy


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Subject: Ethics of Free / Open Source Software - CFP
Date: Friday 24 November 2006 04:34
From: John Hymers <john.hymers at oce.kuleuven.be>
To: PHILOS-L at liverpool.ac.uk

?Free Software or Proprietary Software? Intellectual Property and Freedom?

CFP url: http://www.kuleuven.be/ep/page.php?LAN=E&FILE=subject&ID=364&PAGE=1

To compliment our special issue on patents and intellectual property (EP
13 (2006) 2), Ethical Perspectives is planning a special issue (EP 14
(2007) 2) on the ethics of free / libre / open source software (FLOSS).

Discussions of Richard Stallman?s work on free software are particularly
welcome. We wish to give researchers in this field the chance to publish
original and important contributions to such questions as:


* What are the ethical implications of proprietary software?
* Is free software strictly a deontological approach?
* What effect do FLOSS applications have on developing nations, and on
development work in general?
* Does creativity require traditional market rewards?
* What ethical questions arise in case studies of free software?


Technical discussions are invited in the expectation that they be framed
within the framework of applied ethics, and specifically, within the
framework of freedom, broadly construed.

Deadline: December 30, 2006

Please email papers, preferably in OpenDocument format (ODT), to
ethical at oce.kuleuven.be. Any questions or comments are also welcome at
that address.

Ethical Perspectives is an international, peer-reviewed journal whose
focus is the interplay between fundamental and applied ethics. Please
visit out Web site: http://www.ethical-perspectives.be/

Please see our ?Information for Authors? (also available on the back
inside page of any issue of Ethical Perspectives)

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