License Agreement

Basically... the MIT do-whatever-you-want license, but with the commercial rights for SaaS reserved for the copyright holder.

Contributor Covenant | Contributor Covenant 3

The most widely adopted code of conduct in open source. Stewarded by the Organization for Ethical Source.

The cell membrane as the ‘missing link’ for the evolution of consciousness

While Prof. Torday agrees with Federico Faggin that quantum mechanics is salient to consciousness, he maintains that the role of the cell membrane—which separates an organism from its environment—is key to the selective assimilation or mirroring of the quantum properties of the cosmos into the differentiated consciousness of the organism. This essay is short, dense, and may be difficult to unpack. But it handsomely rewards the effort of the patient and determined reader. The many literature citations in the essay also provide rich ground for further exploration.

CopyFair License - P2P Foundation

= a type of licensing or agreement that aims to re-introduce the principle and practice of reciprocity in markets that use mutualized knowledge (commons), by regulating contributions to these commons for those that commercialize it

The Hippocratic License: Hippocratic License 3.0

Version 3.0 of the Hippocratic License, an ethical open source license created by the Organization for Ethical Source.

FSL

The Functional Source License (FSL) is a source-available license that converts to Apache 2.0 or MIT after two years.

Licenses

PolyForm Noncommercial is a general noncommercial license for software.

Choose an open source license

Non-judgmental guidance on choosing a license for your open source project

Ali Alkhatib: Defining AI

The main issue I have with a lot of work that tries to define AI is that the criteria they use to draw boundaries often turn out to be functionally useless for my needs; these definitions lead us to weird places, letting scholars fixate on strange, unworkable frameworks. Those pedantic fixations don’t really benefit the organizers, activists, regular people who are getting crushed by the systems they’re trying to work against. So I’m going to try to unpack how I think about AI; how I trace the boundaries of the term in a way that’s as useful as possible for me and my needs; and how I would encourage you to scope or define ideas that are important to your work.

Open Source Power

We have to talk about open source licensing.

Actualités/Essais/Documents

Technopolitique, Asma Mhalla : Intelligence artificielle, réseaux sociaux, implants cérébraux, satellites, métavers… Le choc technologique sera l’un ...

Mutualism

Project MUSE - Technology and Below-the-Line Labor in the Copyfight over Intellectual Property

Project MUSE promotes the creation and dissemination of essential humanities and social science resources through collaboration with libraries, publishers, and scholars worldwide. Forged from a partnership between a university press and a library, Project MUSE is a trusted part of the academic and scholarly community it serves.

Braiding Sweetgrass | Milkweed Editions

A New York Times 100 Best Books of the 21st Century Readers Pick #1 New York Times BestsellerA Washington Post and Los Angeles Times Bestseller

The Stallman Paradox: How Web3 Became the Ultimate Open Source Theater

Have you ever wondered why we celebrate Richard Stallman as a visionary prophet of digital freedom while simultaneously abandoning every principle he fought for? The contradiction runs deeper than you think—and the evidence suggests Web3 has become the most sophisticated extraction machine ever wrapped in open source aesthetics. This is the Stallman Paradox: the growing chasm between our intellectual reverence for genuine free software principles and our practical convergence on venture capit...

Reclaiming the Computing Commons

Resisting the commodification of information is a political struggle, not a technical one.

Tech Workers Coalition

A coalition of tech industry workers, labor organizers, community organizers, and friends cultivating solidarity among all workers in tech.