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Digital commons
The digital commons refers to shared digital resources—such as software, knowledge, data, and cultural content—that are collectively produced and governed by a community and intended for public use.[1][2] These commons are distinguished by open access, participatory management, and licensing practices that preserve reuse and redistribution. Digital commons play a vital role in areas such as education, research, software development, and civic engagement.
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 …
Deed - Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International - Creative Commons
You do not have to comply with the license for elements of the material in the public domain or where your use is permitted by an applicable exception or limitation.
CC Search Portal
The Creative Commons (CC) Search Portal helps you search CC licensed works across multiple platforms.
Licenses Alone Do Not Govern Behavior in Open Source
I put things here so they are on the internet
en:license [CoopCycle]
This License grants rights to study, execute, modify and redistribute the Software or its derivatives to any Licensee, but reserve the commercial use of these rights to the only entities defined in Article 3. Any redistribution or online interaction with the Software or its derivative must be done accordingly to the License’s conditions.
The Free-Libre / Open Source Software (FLOSS) License Slide
There are a large number of Free-Libre / Open Source Software (FLOSS) licenses, but only a few are widely used. The widely-used licenses tend to be compatible, i.e., the software can be combined to produce a larger work. The following “license slide” figure makes it easy to see when common licenses can be combined:
Everything an open source maintainer might need to know about open source licensing | Ben Balter
There's lots of internet lore around open source licensing. An attorney and open source developer answers the most common questions.
Does Redis' Commons Clause threaten open-source software? - ZDNET
A new open-source license addendum, Commons Clause, has lawyers, developers, businesses, and open-source supporters fighting with each other.
First Read: The Fair Source License
Text and my first thoughts on a new, non-open source form license