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Figure out what is the correct License to use for this repo #1

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anaulin opened this issue Dec 1, 2020 · 5 comments
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Figure out what is the correct License to use for this repo #1

anaulin opened this issue Dec 1, 2020 · 5 comments

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anaulin commented Dec 1, 2020

As a placeholder, I added the Prosperity License to this repo, following the example of what we have for Convene.

Given that this repo is content-only, and stored in Wiki format, a different License might be more appropriate. Maybe that's a P2P license, or a CC one?

@zspencer I get the sense you've spent some time thinking about Licenses for Zinc's work. Can you advise?

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zspencer commented Dec 3, 2020

I like the Creative Commons set of licenses for content-heavy stuff; unless there's a cooperative-specific content-focused license.

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anaulin commented Dec 5, 2020

I've seen other coops and coop-adjacent entities use the Peer Production License, which seems to be a version of a Creative Commons license that allows free reuse to other commons-based / cooperative enterprises.

I think the Peer Production License feels like a good fit, unless we want to be extra-generous and allow re-use by commercial, non-commons-based entities.

Thoughts?

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anaulin commented Dec 5, 2020

tagging @colombene in case she has an opinion about this license issue

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I don't have an opinion and don't know enough about those licenses yet.

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zspencer commented Dec 6, 2020

The Peer Production License looks like a great license for this particular repository! Thank you @anaulin!

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Per discussion in #1;

The Peer Production License is more inline with our values of building things in a non-extractive manner, by placing constraints such that only people and mutual aid or mutual benefit organizations can leverage the content without acquiring a license.
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