[License-review] For approval: The Cryptographic Autonomy License (Beta 4)

Josh Berkus josh at berkus.org
Sat Dec 7 00:46:28 UTC 2019


On 12/6/19 4:29 PM, Bruce Perens wrote:

> So, how could the Holochain creators fight this? By asserting their
> patents. Whether the defendant is Open Source or not, they would have to
> do it to protect the Holochain.

OK, I can see your reasoning, but I don't get why this invalidates the
license?

If anything, we've stated categorically that we cannot enforce "moral"
behavior through licensing.  Heck, if Holochain is using patents to
enforce user ownership of data, that seems like moral behavior anyway.

-- 
Josh Berkus



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