I see your point, yet I think that it is not looking at the obvious existence of the gpl (or agpl i think) which essentially means you cant make money off of it and must license derivatives the same way. Going the marxist way would mean massively promoting cooperatives. I think there is a place for it. I might make it myself just to prove it can be done and then see what it does.
I just don’t think that written code equals worker power. Ongoing development and maintainance does.
You put a bunch of clauses in your license, how are you enforcing it. You have to refer to the bourgeois legal system. I’m not completely opposed to it, just seems fairly impractical. It isn’t my goal in life to be caught up in a decades spanning lawsuit to be eventually awarded 100k in damages (that’s assuming I got everything right).
Thats essentially defeatism. Using this or that license makes absoputely no difference in your daily routine but it will make a difference for one company that will not use your software for exploitative purposes and will especially encourage cooperatives and singletons to use your software.
Its the same as eating no meat. It makes absolutely zero difference but you will probably (with much more effort than using a marxist license) create one or two more vegetarians or vegans.
Just because something does not have the deciding effect does not mean one should not do it. It is called having principles. Like being in a union or a political party.
I see your point, yet I think that it is not looking at the obvious existence of the gpl (or agpl i think) which essentially means you cant make money off of it and must license derivatives the same way. Going the marxist way would mean massively promoting cooperatives. I think there is a place for it. I might make it myself just to prove it can be done and then see what it does.
I just don’t think that written code equals worker power. Ongoing development and maintainance does.
You put a bunch of clauses in your license, how are you enforcing it. You have to refer to the bourgeois legal system. I’m not completely opposed to it, just seems fairly impractical. It isn’t my goal in life to be caught up in a decades spanning lawsuit to be eventually awarded 100k in damages (that’s assuming I got everything right).
Thats essentially defeatism. Using this or that license makes absoputely no difference in your daily routine but it will make a difference for one company that will not use your software for exploitative purposes and will especially encourage cooperatives and singletons to use your software.
Its the same as eating no meat. It makes absolutely zero difference but you will probably (with much more effort than using a marxist license) create one or two more vegetarians or vegans.
Just because something does not have the deciding effect does not mean one should not do it. It is called having principles. Like being in a union or a political party.
Edit: Here it is. I found this some months ago but forgot that its there. https://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/Peer_Production_License
I’d rather have orgs/people that take themselves seriously enough to care about licenses contact me personally.