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Consider switching the license of the app to the Peer Production License #55

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vkehayas opened this issue Mar 29, 2018 · 1 comment
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vkehayas commented Mar 29, 2018

The license text and further discussion can be found in the following link:
https://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/Peer_Production_License

This license is based on the Creative Commons ‘Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike’ license (v. 3.0) with these additional clauses inserted:

You may exercise the rights granted in Section 3 for commercial purposes only if:
i. You are a worker-owned business or worker-owned collective; and
ii. all financial gain, surplus, profits and benefits produced by the business or collective are distributed among the worker-owners

If our goal is not simply to facilitate distribution of our code and ideas but to also promote a change in culture, I think that this, or a similar, license is more appropriate.
I believe that our dependencies are all under the MIT or LGPL licenses which should pose no problem in continuing using them.

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@vkehayas I've raised this in our Slack channel. Might take some time for us to go over everything but feel free to touch base periodically.

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