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The Licence and the Shared Name
How to Give an Idea Away Without Letting It Be Captured
Follow software’s journey from copyable tool to industrial commons, then confront the asset its licences rarely distribute: trusted identity. The book invites builders, maintainers, companies, and policymakers to imagine open ecosystems in which reputation carries reciprocal obligations without restricting everyone’s freedom to use the code.
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Ideas need terms of freedom
An idea can be shared and still be captured by a faction, owner or institution. This book asks how a common name and a licence can protect the openness an idea needs to evolve.