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Licensing terms for data in the Atmosphere
I’d like to raise a fun and interesting topic, and that’s intellectual property and content licensing. The data that flies around the Atmosphere is all visible and public. We’re at a stage within the Atmosphere where services are beginning to grow, and we’re beginning to see lexicons and data that express creative works that extend in length beyond microblogging. I think that the Standard.site lexicons are a great example. But these creations lead to further questions. Who has permission to...

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Why I'm Changing the License in Over 80 of My Code Repos After Talking to the Co-Creator of Fediverse
Why I'm Switching from MIT to AGPL and from CC BY-NC to CC BY-SA after a conversation with Dr. Matt Lee about copyleft licensing and protecting free softwa…


Sorting out the Ethical Licensing Mess
Software developers who give the world, for free, usage rights to the code they write often use open source licenses to make this gift legally explicit. These free usage rights (and then some) are …

On Betraying Principles
Why Creative Commons must be about more than reducing friction on reuse This week, I had the experience of being told the work we are doing at Creative Commons right now is betraying the founding principles of the organization. This is not the first time and it won’t be the last.

Canadian Community Newsmedia Awards
The Canadian Community Newsmedia Awards (CCNAwards) celebrate the best in community publishing from across the country. Newspapers and newsmedia sites compete against each other and are judged by a panel of industry experts. With a diverse array of awards categories covering editorial, photography and multimedia, the CCNAwards offer learning opportunities for publishers of all sizes.

resources and blogs for publishing your writing to standard.site, where it becomes searchable across several platforms and affords you a fancy link on Bluesky

Pushing this blog to ATProto through standard.site

Making a Ghost Blog a Valid standard.site Publication
standard.site validator

Publishing My Eleventy Blog to the ATmosphere with Standard.site
Publishing on the Atmosphere with Standard.site
Publishing · Standard Reader