<div dir="ltr">Please feel free to contribute to the page here at: <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1scsEb-3XWiqGG_Mf93JjtB37_7Msjj4M4PYuO1XazIE/edit#">https://docs.google.com/document/d/1scsEb-3XWiqGG_Mf93JjtB37_7Msjj4M4PYuO1XazIE/edit#</a><div><br></div><div><br><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><span id="docs-internal-guid-168a1e3b-f7f2-4327-92ce-70cc6d680b0d"><h2 dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:10pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:17.3333333333333px;font-family:'Trebuchet MS';color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">As agreed with stacco and primavera in a skype, I will try to create a basic document for discussion on the principles and need for the copyfair faq.</span></h2><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:14.6666666666667px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">I’m starting with a set of questions, please add yours!</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:14.6666666666667px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent"><br></span></p><p style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:14.6666666666667px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Stacco, it would help me if you can prompt me to continue answering a few questions each day,</span></p><p style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:14.6666666666667px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent"><br></span></p><p style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:14.6666666666667px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">first, please add questions, then, please check the first answers,</span></p><p style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:14.6666666666667px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent"><br></span></p><p style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:14.6666666666667px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Note to others, this is not the place to question the existence of a copyfair, but for those who agree that it is needed and discuss how it is to be done,</span></p><p style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:14.6666666666667px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent"><br></span></p><p style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:14.6666666666667px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Michel</span></p><br><br><h1 dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:10pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:21.3333333333333px;font-family:'Trebuchet MS';color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">The FAQ</span></h1><br><br><h2 dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:10pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:17.3333333333333px;font-family:'Trebuchet MS';color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">What is the Copyfair License ?</span></h2><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:14.6666666666667px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">The copyfair license is the name we give for a new type of license based on stronger reciprocity. </span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:14.6666666666667px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">The existing mainstream open license that creates a commons, the General Public License, is based on a ‘general reciprocity’ model. Each person has the right to use the code, but any changes to it must be given back to the code base so that other people can continue to use it and the commons can continue to grow. The code base can also be used by persons and companies that do not contribute to the commons, i.e. without such reciprocity. In a license with a strong reciprocity requirement, this is strengthened in the following way: anybody can use the code base of the license, but persons or companies that want to make profit without making any contributions, need to make another contribution to the common effort, for example by paying for the license.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:14.6666666666667px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">The copyfair license does not restrict any usage of the code base and maintains the rights and freedoms enshrined in the GPL-type commons licenses, but it restricts profit-making on the basis of common work without any contribution.</span></p><br><br><h2 dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:10pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:17.3333333333333px;font-family:'Trebuchet MS';color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Why is it needed ? What it is for ?</span></h2><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:14.6666666666667px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">The dominant free software licenses allow any person and company to use the code base, without asking for any specific reciprocity. This allows huge multinational companies that do not necessarily contribute to the commons, to use this commons for profit-making. This may not be seen to be a major problem in software production itself, where the barriers to entry and participation are low, and the companies may be seen to contribute to the network effect by enlarging the user base. However, in the case of for example design, which is to be used in physical manufacturing, this means that investments are needed in workplaces, machinery, and wages, such a for-profit usage may be seen as extractive by the players who do invest in such production facilities. In practice we see that most of the open source economies are indeed dominated by for-profit entities, which may or may not contribute to the commons. Another example would be a traditional indigenous community involved in medicinal herbs. With a traditional open license, it may retain the knowledge created by their commons, but certainly the economic activities will still be taken on by firms who do not necessarily practice profit or benefit-sharing.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:14.6666666666667px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">So the essential issue addressed by the copyfair license is to insure fair conditions of value creation and distribution. The commoners / contributors who are contributing, investing in commons-based peer production can insure that the value of the common work is not extracted without any reciprocity.</span></p><br><br><h2 dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:10pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:17.3333333333333px;font-family:'Trebuchet MS';color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">How does it relate to other licenses ?</span></h2><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:14.6666666666667px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">The Copyfair license endorses and maintains the free software freedoms enshrined in the GPL, but restricts profit-making potential by a reciprocity requirement.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:14.6666666666667px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Unlike the Creative Commons Non-Commercial license, the Copyfair does not restrict the creation of an economy around these commons.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:14.6666666666667px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Unlike the Copysol (= solidarity) license developed by Solidarius, the Copyfair license does not restrict usage by for-protit entities, but only requires a reciprocal contribution.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:14.6666666666667px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Copyfair extends the user base of the Peer Production License, the first example of a reciprocity-based license, by not restricting usage to worker coops.</span></p><br><br><h2 dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:10pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:17.3333333333333px;font-family:'Trebuchet MS';color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Who is it for ?</span></h2><br><br><h2 dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:10pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:17.3333333333333px;font-family:'Trebuchet MS';color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">How can it be enforced ?</span></h2><br><br><br><h2 dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:10pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:17.3333333333333px;font-family:'Trebuchet MS';color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Does it restrict freedoms guaranteed by other licenses ?</span></h2><br><br><h2 dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:10pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:17.3333333333333px;font-family:'Trebuchet MS';color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">What are the potential benefits ?</span></h2><br><br><br><h2 dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:10pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:17.3333333333333px;font-family:'Trebuchet MS';color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">What are the potential drawbacks ?</span></h2><br><br><br><br><br><h2 dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:10pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:17.3333333333333px;font-family:'Trebuchet MS';color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">How can reciprocity be defined ?</span></h2><br><br><br><h2 dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:10pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:17.3333333333333px;font-family:'Trebuchet MS';color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">What kind of entities can use the Copyfair commons ?</span></h2><br><br><br><h2 dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:10pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:17.3333333333333px;font-family:'Trebuchet MS';color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">What kind of entities cannot use the Copyfair commons ?</span></h2><br><br></span><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div>Check out the Commons Transition Plan here at: <a href="http://commonstransition.org" target="_blank">http://commonstransition.org</a> </div><div><br></div>P2P Foundation: <a href="http://p2pfoundation.net" target="_blank">http://p2pfoundation.net</a> - <a href="http://blog.p2pfoundation.net" target="_blank">http://blog.p2pfoundation.net</a> <br><br><a href="http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation" target="_blank"></a>Updates: <a href="http://twitter.com/mbauwens" target="_blank">http://twitter.com/mbauwens</a>; <a href="http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens" target="_blank">http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens</a><br><br>#82 on the (En)Rich list: <a href="http://enrichlist.org/the-complete-list/" target="_blank">http://enrichlist.org/the-complete-list/</a> <br></div></div></div></div>
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