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. 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 rest of the article at Wired.
