[Nodedb-interop] Licenses

Mitar (spam-protected)
Sun Sep 5 13:56:58 CEST 2010


Hi!

> Actually I found this so useful that I deluged into a Spanish-Greek
> translation, since our networks are very similar (from what I can
> grasp without visiting guifi).

I was hoping in that we would go into "official" English translation
(and maybe not just translation, but also refinement) from where we
could take it to other languages.

I have some feeling that Pico Peering and Wireless Commons are somehow
initial ideas where guifi.net's XOLN is a product of using them for some
time. Like you make initial proposal and after experience you change it
to cover real needs and problems but in this process it becomes more and
more specific to your network. Now it would be useful to make one step
back again and make it general so that multiple networks can use it, but
all knowledge which has accumulated in the license would be used in there.

Or is this making things complicated where there is no need for that?
What are limitations of  Pico Peering Agreement? Maybe it is already OK
as it is and there is no need to change it?

Is it really necessary to make a license "to cover them all" or it is
enough for us to find those which are compatible (or why they are not)?
Similar to GPL and other open source/free software licenses?

But it is true that CreativeCommons is really making a good impact by
having them all under one hood. Maybe a similar schema with on/off
clauses is also possible here (if we find that we cannot agree upon one).

The problem is also that different jurisdictions should have different
licenses.

Maybe we should invite people from all those other licenses to join us?


Mitar




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