[Coco] Open source Beer

[Dave Kelly]

Open Source Beer?
Submitted by: Ty





Beer always tastes better when it's free, or so the saying goes.

So leave it to a group of college students to find a way to make sure 
their beer is always free. Well, at least the recipe they use to brew it 
is. A group of students at IT University of Copenhagen have produced 
what they claim is the first open-source beer.

The recipe and brand of their beer is published under a Creative Commons 
license, which means anyone can use the recipe for pleasure or profit.

The only catch: If you make money selling their unique beer, you have to 
give them credit and publish any changes you make to the recipe under a 
similar license.

Their inspiration wasn't just to get drunk, but to see what happens when 
an open-source structure is applied to a universally known product like 
beer.

"Why not take the legal framework, the open-source licenses, and apply 
them on analog products?" said Rasmus Nielsen, a member of Superflex, an 
art organization that helped create the beer in conjunction with a 
student group called Vores Øl (Our Beer).

Read the full story.

http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,68144,00.html?tw=wn_tophead_4