beyond the basics
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 …
Licenses
Non-judgmental guidance on choosing a license for your open source project
Why I used to prefer permissive licenses and now favor copyleft
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...
Licenses List - Creative Commons
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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…
Katerina Marchán (@zkat@toot.cat)
Open source maintainers of major projects (hi) are not ready to accept and talk about how the cultural insistence on permissive licensing is just straight up labor exploitation taking advantage of our addiction to popularity (also hi). We’re doing this to ourselves too, you know.
