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@@ -4,13 +4,15 @@ Draupnir is licensed under the Cooperative Software License.
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The reason for the license is simply because this project
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was something that I was previously employed to work on.
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I have not decided whether I will accept contributions under the same license
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or another license or a CLA yet.
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I will welcome advice, but I will not welcome attempts to parsuade me to re-adopt
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and relicense under Apache-2.0 unless being offered compensation.
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I have not decided whether I will accept contributions under the
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same license or another license or a CLA yet.
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I will welcome advice, but I will not welcome attempts to parsuade
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me to re-adopt and relicense under Apache-2.0 unless being offered
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compensation.
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The easiest way forwards would be for me to accept individual contributions under
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Apache-2.0.
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As of now, I am accepting contributions under the Apache-2.0 license
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in the same way as Mjolnir. This allows me the option to relicense
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Draupnir under Apache-2.0 without needing to chase up all contributors.
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## How to contribute
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@@ -185,3 +187,58 @@ matrix together all the fragmented communication technologies out there we are
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reliant on contributions and collaboration from the community to do so. So
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please get involved - and we hope you have as much fun hacking on Matrix as we
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do!
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## Further notes on license and its relation to business in general
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Ultimately most open source software contributions start by gifting
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labour without any obligation or transaction.
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There is no ethical way to directly sell this labour.
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Many so called post open source[^post-open-source] ideas fixate on
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finding a way to conduct business in an ethical way,
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and this is problematic.
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Once you start working within capitalism with capitalism, and exchange
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your power and influence over a work to monitize the work itself,
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the work will gain inertia and a power of its own that you cannot control.
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You will work for the work, for external interests, and these won't
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be the interests of your powerless users who you were among to begin with.
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It would be extreme, but I am tempted to suggest that by performing a
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buisness this way, you are part of an effort
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which not only reinforces capitalism but works to make it more
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efficient. Effectively working to make capitalism more powerful.
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Congratulations.
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Another point that is often brought up in these discussions is how
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software licensing relies on an appeal to state power, the power of
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the law.
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Therefore I propose a new licensing model, one which appeals
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to the power of public pressure rather than the law.
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Such a license would be liberal, allowing incorperation into
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proprietary works provided it retained a notice.
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However, any work which is used in any way to conduct business must
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report all software being used by the buisness with this license,
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all turnover made by the buisness, all profit made by the buisness
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and an estimation of both profit and turnover made by the buisness in
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relation to the collection of software reported.
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It is not clear to me how often these figures should be reported
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and when, or even where they should be reported to (ideally they could
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be found centrally). It is also unclear how to create the legalise
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required.
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With the information these licenses would provide, public pressure
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could then be used to demand reperations for the profits made by
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pillaging and destructive businesses.
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It is not clear yet how any reperations would be distributed,
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probably through some system of
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[venture communes](https://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/Venture_Commune).
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The idea is to ensure that the developers and users of projects
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would not be distracted from providing each other mutual
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support and to give them a hope of escaping.
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[^post-open-source] https://applied-langua.ge/posts/the-poverty-of-post-open-source.html.
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