Why crypto software licenses need to protect user’s control of their keys.
Cryptographic Autonomy License
1. Purpose This License gives You unlimited permission to use and modify the software to which it applies (the “Work”), either as-is or in modified form, for Your private purposes, while protecting…
Licensing needs for Truly P2P Software
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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.
Decentralizability
What makes software decentralizable? Immutable data, universal IDs, user-controlled keys.
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 …
Toward Copyleft Equality for All
I would not have imagined even two years ago that expansion of copyleft would become such an issue of interest in software freedom licensing. Historically and for good reason, addition of new forms of copyleft clauses has moved at a steady pace. The early 2000s brought network services clauses (such as that in the Affero GPL), which hinged primarily on requiring provision of source to network-remote users. Affero GPL implemented this via copyright-controlled permission of modification. These licenses began as experiments, and were not approved by some license certification authorities until many years later.
Licenses Alone Do Not Govern Behavior in Open Source
I put things here so they are on the internet
MySQL founder tries a new software licensing model | TechCrunch
When it comes to open-source licenses, developers have their fair share of choices (GPL, BSD, MIT, Apache, etc.), all of them with their own pros and
Why I used to prefer permissive licenses and now favor copyleft
Operating Environment
essential industry background for reading open software licenses
software
Software freedom is the freedom to run the program as you wish, for any purpose, to study how the program works, and change it, to redistribute copies and your modified versions so you can help others.