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Internal Note
Report number CERN-IT-Note-2016-001
Title History of the CERN Web Software Public Releases
Author(s) Fluckiger, Francois ; Smith, Tim (CERN)
Corporate author(s) CERN. Geneva. IT Department
Imprint 21 Jan 2016. - 7 p.
Note This note is an extended version of the article “Licencing the Web” published by CERN, Nov 2013, in the “Birth of the Web” series of articles.
Subject category Computing and Computers
Keywords history ; Birth of the Web ; WWW ; World-Wide Web ; Software ; open source licence ; public domain
Abstract This note is an extended version of the article “Licencing the Web” (http://home.web.cern.ch/topics/birthweb/licensing-web) published by CERN, Nov 2013, in the “Birth of the Web” series of articles (http://home.cern/topics/birth-web). It describes the successive steps of the public release of the CERN Web software, from public domain to open source, and explains their rationale. It provides in annexes historical documents including release announcement and texts of the licences used by CERN and MIT in public software distributions.
Submitted by francois.fluckiger@cern.ch

 


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