<div>If we define the open paradigm as the one's right to access information or resources, then what is the equivalent ,to GPL, license when it comes to resources and especially capital(infrastructure)?</div><div><br></div>
<div>(When it comes to capital, open access can be a bit more restrictive, ie allowing only the consumers and producers to have access )</div><div><br></div><div>The gpl license prohibits that subsequent releases of the code as closed-source. This is a protection mechanism that needs to be used for capital as well.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Here capital is not an idea, but a material thing that either exists now or we have a promise for its existence in the future(money).</div><div><br></div><div>Has anyone defined a license or a set of rules that need to apply to money and the existent capital so as to be called open capital?</div>
<div><br></div><div>I think that we are lucking a good rule set when it comes to money.�</div><div>As I have said in this list many times before, inequalities can arise even in an environment where all knowledge is open source and all resources are peer governed</div>
<div>�simply because we have small differences in abilities �and thus a difference in accumulated value(money) which if it reaches critical mass could lead again to big inequalities(since money create money).</div><br clear="all">
<div><br></div>-- <br><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;border-collapse:collapse"><pre style="white-space:pre-wrap"><br></pre><pre style="white-space:pre-wrap">Sincerely yours, </pre><pre style="white-space:pre-wrap">
Apostolis Xekoukoulotakis</pre></span>