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The Cryptographic Autonomy License
Introducing the Cryptographic Autonomy License, or CAL. The CAL is a new strong network copyleft license especially appropriate for distributed systems.
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02.10
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Further Comments on the SSPL
My previous post was discussed on License-Review and was shared on Hacker News, where it engendered some discussion. Some good points were made by various people, which I thought it might be useful to respond to here. First: Community considerations First, I should say that I don't necessarily disag
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MongoDB's Server Side Public License is likely unenforceable
Update: Afew more thoughts on the SSPL in response to some counterarguments that have been raised. A few days ago, MongoDB, Inc changed the license of its widely-used database software to the "Server Side Public License" or SSPL. They also submitted the SSPL for review by the Open Source Initiative,
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Copyrights and Patents at the Supreme Court
It is IP month at the Supreme Court this month, with two decisions issued (Star Athletica v. Varsity Brands and SCA Hygiene Prods. v. First Quality Baby Prods.) and two cases being argued (Impression Prods., Inc. v. Lexmark International, Inc. and TC Heartland LLC v. Kraft Foods Group Brands LLC). O
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The Copyrightability of APIs
Apropos to the current discussions in the Oracle-Google trial, I wrote this in 2007: COPYRIGHT IN HEADER FILES One particularly difficult issue concerns copyright protection of header files. An individual name or symbol in a header file cannot be copyrighted, but the particular selection of symbols