







licensing with friends, improved and improving


The CRA is not about open source
The CRA created an open-source steward role, then left maintenance unfunded.


XLC Building Blocks
essential concepts and vocabulary for cross-license collaboratives

Why I used to prefer permissive licenses and now favor copyleft




A game of co-opetition: exploring the benefits of asset owner collaboration - Thinking Ahead Institute
It may seem like a hidden truth but the reality is that asset owners are in competition with each other. They are in competition for the best alpha ideas, the best manager products and the best research – all with the aim of improving risk-return trade-offs to increase the likelihood of meeting their liabilities. As a result, many asset owners find it difficult to collaborate, even in initiatives that may prove mutually beneficial. At the Thinking Ahead Institute’s recent Sydney roundtable event, asset owner attendees highlighted the top three barriers to successful peer collaboration: (1) difficulties being transparent; (2) lack of time and resources available; and (3) difficulties in aligning interests. At the same time, attendees agreed on the value to funds of collaborating productively on industry structure and regulation, and on a universal owner / alignment of interest agenda.

Reimagining OSS Licensing and Commercialization with Fair Source - Adam Jacob, System Initiative
Steps I'm taking to stay anonymous with LLCs
40 votes, 34 comments. I did some extensive research and came to a conclusion that even with the new FinCEN BOI requirements, it is still possible to…
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 …

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