#commonsclause — Public Fediverse posts

@KarlHeinzHasliP
> workadventu.re is the best matrix front end

This does look cool. Code is under AGPLv3, but they seem to think they can simultaneously give full permission for reuse *and* revoke some of those uses;

https://workadventu.re/faq/what-is-the-license-of-the-self-hosted-version-of-workadventure/

The Commons Clause is a dead duck legally when apply to v3 GNU licenses, so feel free to ignore it;

https://www.fsf.org/blogs/licensing/protecting-free-software-against-confusing-additional-restrictions

#AGPL #CommonsClause #WorkAdventure

Like #FairSource, and the #CommonsClause, #LicenseZero is yet another attempt at mususing the term #OpenSource to describe the software license equivalent of the #NoCommercialUse licenses in the #CreativeCommons suite:
https://licensezero.com/

@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)

What Matt doesn't want to accept, is that #copyleft is precisely the answer people are looking for when they try to apply things like the #FairSource license, the #CommonsClause, or the #PPL (Peer Production License) to software. They want to protect the software commons from extractive capitalists, who don't want to contribute back to the pool they draw from. Copyleft was created to achieve exactly that protection of the software commons.