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Locked Open: Why Anyone Can Be a Broker - ATProtoFans Blog

Part 4 of our "Building Recurring Payments in Public" series where we talk about being "locked open" and what it means to be a participant in the communities we support.

Lockdown Systems

A worker-owned collective building freedom and privacy tech, empowering people to take control of their own data and protect themselves from unwanted surveillance

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 …

Unlocking the commons

"The most powerful and interesting media model will remain raising money from members who don't just permit but <em>insist</em> that the product be given away for free."

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…

DropLock

The link below is like an open lock box that belongs to you. Anyone you share it with can put a secret inside and create a locked link that only you can open.

Hackathon on Decentralised Media - TEP (Trusted European Platforms) Bluesky, Nostr · Luma

Every year, thousands of developers of free and open-source software from all over the world gather at FOSDEM. For two weeks around this event – from the 26th…

Programmer Power

prying open “software freedom”

Time-lock puzzle

A time-lock puzzle, or time-released cryptography, encrypts a message that cannot be decrypted until a specified amount of time has passed. The concept was first described by Timothy C. May,&#91;1&#93; and a solution first introduced by Ron Rivest, Adi Shamir, and David A. Wagner in 1996.&#91;2&#93; Time-lock puzzle are useful in cases where confidentiality of information is determined by time, such as a diarist who does not want their views released until 50 years after their death, an auction where bids are sealed until the bidding period is closed, electronic voting, and contract signing.&#91;1&#93;&#91;3&#93; They can additionally be used in creating further cryptographic primitives, such as verifiable delay functions and zero knowledge proofs.&#91;3&#93;

Crypto: How the Code Rebels Beat the Government—Saving …

If you've ever made a secure purchase with your credit …

Understanding the Cryptographic Autonomy License

Why crypto software licenses need to protect user’s control of their keys.

Protocol: How Control Exists after Decentralization

How Control Exists after DecentralizationIs the Internet a vast arena of unrestricted communication and freely exchanged information or a regulated, highly

The Fediverse and Content Creation: Monetization

Sure, we have open source, federated replacements for Instagram, Tiktok, and YouTube. How do we get creators to use this stuff? One consideration involves the ability to pay for things.

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.

Introducing the Permissive License Stack

We believe open-source values are critical to free societies, especially in the digital age. To that end, we’ve created a new approach to licensing invoking the principles of the Default Open Pledge