@contrapunctus @Wuzzy There is actually this idea, #copyfarleft, that is like a #copyleft license that requires that commercial users are structured as worker coops

@nixCraft Widespread use of permissive #OpenSource licenses. We should be using #copyleft as a bare minimum and probably use even stronger licenses like #copyfarleft. There is no point in releasing code under licenses that don't require some form of reciprocity from commercial capitalist users. There is no virtue in developing software for free for capitalists

@tothedaring@kolektiva.social I have been thinking about this as well. FOSS has the kernel of a new mode of production within it. I think some ideas such an endeavor could take inspiration from are #copyfarleft, which requires commercial users to be structured as worker coops. Within the commons any funds should be allocated by democratic non-market mechanisms like quadratic funding. See (5 minutes):

https://youtu.be/xwY0UAk14Rk

@beejjorgensen @F100 @ajroach42 Even without government spending, there are ways to start experiment with these mechanisms now through clever licensing schemes and special organizations representing the commons as in #copyfarleft, #copyfair and harberger licenses

@matrix I don't fully understand the different licenses in this case. I think I get the overall dilemma. It reminds me of similar license discussions about profit/non-profit and how to keep actors on a competitive commodity market from exploiting commons. I think Dmitry Kleiner did some really important work with the idea of #copyfarleft that perhaps could be built on.

@chaz When there was not a lot of free/libre "copyleft" software around it perhaps made some sense to have software from corporations channelled in to the "commons". But now with the commons channelling software into the corporate, and the corporate getting a free/cheap labour force, some thought at least is being given to how the commons deals with all of this, including discussion of a new idea of #copyfarleft. These are ideas that will need some serious discussion and debate.

@chaz Another concept that is beginning to be discussed is #copyfarleft

There's some discussion of these types of licenses here:

https://github.com/LibreCybernetics/awesome-copyfarleft

Just published my first libre source library: a small TOML library for Scala 3. :3

Triple Licensed under:

- Anticapitalist Software License
- Cooperative Software License, or
- Parity Public License (AGPL-like, bit stronger contribution requirments)

Code: https://github.com/LibreCybernetics/Monorepo/tree/main/code/lib/toml

Still incomplete but a first release non-the-less (v0.1.0-M1)

https://jitpack.io/#dev.librecybernetics/Monorepo

```
"dev.librecybernetics.Monorepo" %%% "toml" % "lib-toml-v0.1.0-M1"
```

Still need to learn a lot about POMs, publishing, jars, etc.

#scala #foss #LibreSource #LibreSoftware #copyfarleft #OpenSource

Hey #LibreSource / #OpenSource and #Leftist / #Cooperativist fediverse,

Here is a small repo (self promo) linking you both via #Copyfarleft / #Copyfair:

https://github.com/LibreCybernetics/awesome-copyfarleft

@ArneBab @tunda Was hält uns ab das Spiel zu übersetzen? Es ist frei lizenziert.

Ich habe keine Erfahrung damit, aber mittels #TranslateWiki könnten wir einen Versuch unternehmen. Habt ihr Zeit und Lust mitzumachen?

(Auf der Webseite ist nicht nur von #copyleft, sondern #copyfarleft die Rede; Es wundert mich, dass noch keine deutsche Sprachversion existiert. Dabei ist die meinem Gefühl nach doch oft eine der Übersetzungen die häufig in #FLOSS verfügbar ist.)

El #copyfarleft y la #propiedadintelectual #comunal

https://www.iis.unam.mx/blog/el-copyfarleft-y-la-propiedad-intelectual-comunal/

In the acknowledgements for CBL-Mariner, https://github.com/microsoft/CBL-Mariner
Microsoft's Linux distribution: (see image)

If this won't convince you free software losers that the FSF's licensing strategy is too milquetoast to avoid corporate assimilation idk what will. Use licenses that disrupt corporate interests and are truly incompatible with destructive corporations trying to enclose the commons. https://ethicalsource.dev/licenses/
https://thufie.lain.haus/NPL.html

#EthicalSource #CopyFarLeft

Wow, I didn't know that @OSEcology is so critical re the Peer Production Licence / #Copyfarleft and honestly, it doesn't make sense to me. @Commons_Trans @P2P_Foundation @davidbollier

Copyfarleft

Copyfarleft is specifically limited to worker-owned entities and cooperatives, which some may find restrictive. So Copyfair addresses more generically the relations between commons communities and the market entities working with them, expecting reciprocity in exchange for commercial rights (note from Michel Bauwens)

"The main argument advanced in the essay is that artists can not earn a living from exclusivity of "intellectual property" and that that neither copyleft licenses like the GPL, nor "copyjustright" frameworks such as the creative commons, can help." ...

http://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/Copyfarleft

HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25032406

#CopyFarLeft #copyleft #CreativeCommons #MichelBauwens #AlanToner #p2pFoundation #p2p

I think my dream now is to have an OS written in #Rust with #Vim keybinding by default, all under a #copyfarleft license.

@adfeno @strypey @snowdrift

I agree, those non-FLO incompatible terms are problematic. I/we support *neither*. But do notice that #CommonsClause and #Copyfarleft are at least different motivations. The former is meant specifically to *encourage* and enable proprietary licensing (while still having FLO something), while the latter is *sometimes* used by those who would like to offer the capitalists nothing at all, not even via a proprietary license.

But either harms the FLO commons we have.

@strypey @wolftune @snowdrift Please oppose #CommonsClause and #Copyfarleft for functional data.

@wolftune well, #CopyFarLeft uses a cooperative vs. corporation distinction, rather than libre vs. proprietary. But I agree that the underlying logic of trying to exclude some parties from freely using free code kind of defeats the purpose, however well-intended (#CommonsClause, #FairSource etc). It's not a radical solution, in that it tries to bandage the symptom, rather than fix the problem at root (asymmetrical power/wealth relations between communities and corporations)