[License-discuss] How can we as a community help empower authors outside license agreements?

[Thorsten Glaser]

Russell McOrmond dixit:

>Software license agreements are conditions upon which permission is granted
>to do activities which copyright or (unfortunately in some jurisdictions)
>patent law require permission for.
>
>If what you wish to discuss is voluntary then it is part of a community

This got me to think. The result:

More importantly, a licence for a work has to do with the work.
The work, in this case, can be used outside of the community it
originated in. For Open Source, the ability to do that, and even
to form a new community around the work and derivates thereof,
is crucial.

It’s (probably, to some) nice that some people want to form “safe”,
“ethic”, etc. communities around works but shutting out the ability
to use the work under OSS terms outside of such a community is very
much outside of being OSS. Please especially consider disconnected
communities when thinking about it, starting with the already fami‐
liar chinese dissident and desert island tests, but extending, pro‐
bably, to communities with different ethics and morals and perhaps
even laws from the originator’s.

bye,
//mirabilos
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