The case for free and open source software in research and scholarship
Year: 2020

Free and open source software (FOSS) is any computer program released under a licence that grants users rights to run the program for any purpose, to study it, to modify it, and to redistribute it in original or modified form.Our aim is to explore the intersection between FOSS and computational reproducibility. We begin by situating FOSS in relation to other ``open'' initiatives, and specifically open science, open research, and open scholarship. In this context, we argue that anyone who activel