November 2009 • the Open Siddur Project ✍ פְּרוֺיֶּקט הַסִּדּוּר הַפָּתוּחַ

Jewish Content, Free Culture and “Content Compatibility” by Efraim Feinstein

Contributor(s):	Efraim Feinstein
Categories:	Advocacy
Tags:	free culture, licensing, what is free
	The free culture community has developed mechanisms to make sharing and collaborative development easier. The principles that define works of free culture are: the freedom to use the work and enjoy the benefits of using it the freedom to study the work and to apply knowledge acquired from it the freedom to make and redistribute copies, in whole or in part, of the information or expression the freedom to make changes and improvements, and to distribute derivative works Note that these freedoms do not discriminate on the basis of endeavor, and all free culture works allow creation of derivative works and commercial use. . . .

Development Status (2009-11-11)

Contributor(s):	the Hierophant
Categories:	Development
Tags:	development status
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Why all the software? by Efraim Feinstein

Contributor(s):	Efraim Feinstein
Categories:	Essays
Tags:	נוסחאות nusḥaöt
	One question I’ve been asked a number of times about the Open Siddur Project is: why are you developing all that software? It’s a fair question. After all, the siddur is just text. There are other do-it-yourself siddur kits out there. They sell you (or, more accurately, license you) a text. You open the text in a word processor, make a few stylistic changes, and voila, you have your own custom siddur. The “advanced” ones may even hand you one copy of a “nusaḥ Ashkenaz” siddur, one copy of a “nusaḥ Sefard” siddur, and one copy of a “nusaḥ Edot Hamizrah” siddur, giving you some choices. All good, right? So, once again, why does the Open Siddur need so much software? . . .

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