IS THE GENERAL PUBLIC LICENCE A RATIONAL CHOICE?*
研究了开源项目相对于企业或市场协调的优势，发现对于足够凸且模块化的项目，专有许可证无法维持顺序知识生产，而开源模式可以。
Open source projects are networks of developers, distributors and end‐users of non‐proprietary created knowledge goods. It has been argued that this form of organization has some advantages over the firm or market coordination. I show that for sufficiently convex and modular projects, proprietary licences are not able to sustain sequential knowledge production which, however, can be carried out if the project is run on the open source basis.