[License-discuss] The value of open source

[Bruce Perens]

Javier Serano is involved in Open Source at CERN and bleeding edge physics
research.

On Thu, Jul 9, 2020, 08:58 Lawrence Rosen <lrosen at rosenlaw.com> wrote:

> Below is the acknowledgement from an important paper published today by
> CERN. “Observation of structure in the J/ψ-pair mass spectrum
> <https://arxiv.org/pdf/2006.16957.pdf>.“ Don’t bother reading the paper;
> like most physics results it is generally incomprehensible to laypersons.
> But please see the sentence highlighted below in yellow. Be proud. /Larry
>
>
>
> Acknowledgements
>
> We express our gratitude to our colleagues in the CERN accelerator
> departments for the excellent performance of the LHC. We thank the
> technical and administrative staff at the LHCb institutes. We acknowledge
> support from CERN and from the national agencies: CAPES, CNPq, FAPERJ and
> FINEP (Brazil); MOST and NSFC (China); CNRS/IN2P3 (France); BMBF, DFG and
> MPG (Germany); INFN (Italy); NWO (Netherlands); MNiSW and NCN (Poland);
> MEN/IFA (Romania); MSHE (Russia); MinECo (Spain); SNSF and SER
> (Switzerland); NASU (Ukraine); STFC (United Kingdom); DOE NP and NSF (USA).
> We acknowledge the computing resources that are provided by CERN, IN2P3
> (France), KIT and DESY (Germany), INFN (Italy), SURF (Netherlands), PIC
> (Spain), GridPP (United Kingdom), RRCKI and Yandex LLC (Russia), CSCS
> (Switzerland), IFIN-HH (Romania), CBPF (Brazil), PL-GRID (Poland) and OSC
> (USA). We are indebted to the communities behind the multiple open-source
> software packages on which we depend. Individual groups or members have
> received support from AvH Foundation (Germany); EPLANET, Marie Sk
> lodowska-Curie Actions and ERC (European Union); A*MIDEX, ANR, Labex P2IO
> and OCEVU, and R´egion Auvergne-Rhˆone-Alpes (France); Key Research Program
> of Frontier Sciences of CAS, CAS PIFI, and the Thousand Talents Program
> (China); RFBR, RSF and Yandex LLC (Russia); GVA, XuntaGal and GENCAT
> (Spain); the Royal Society and the Leverhulme Trust (United Kingdom).
>
>
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