Commons Management Agreement

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Description

Danyl Strype adds:

  • "The Commons Management Agreement is a special form of CLA (Contributor License Agreement) that can be used by free code software projects like CryptPad who are using a copyleft license (eg GNU AGPL). It specifies that the license of the full version of the project’s software will always remain free and copyleft, but that proprietary licenses may be issued for a fee, allowing comanies to use the software in a commercial setting without honouring the copyleft obligation. This is seen as a way of creating sustainable funding for projects developing software for the commons, and as such, has similar underlying goals to the Peer Production License."

(Loomio, April 2018)

More information

Example at https://www.clahub.com/agreements/cjdelisle/cryptpad?