Commons-Based Reciprocity License
Introduction
Michel Bauwens:
(as compiled by Bob Haugen):
"As you likely now, my instantiation is centered around the creation of open and ethical enterpreneurial coalitions, that co-produce commons, and that start applying open book accounting and open supply chains in their collaborative practices (a la Curto Cafe), using commons-based reciprocity licenses as their binding social charter,
[...]
The basic idea of open coops is explained here:
- ://p2pfoundation.net/Why_We_Need_a_New_Kind_of_Open_Cooperativism_for_the_P2P_Age
and elaborated here:
At the core of such coops, intended to create cooperative enterpreneurial coalitions, is
- the proposal to use a new kind of license, commons-based reciprocity
licenses, a first instantiation of which is , though I don't like its too explicit political language, the Peer Production License, [1]
Essentially such a license creates open knowledge, with one exception:
- allows full use by not for profit and common good oriented entities
- allows full use by self-owned enterpreneurial entities
- allows full use by for-profits who contribute
so the one exception is for-profits who do not contribute, who have to pay for the use of the license; the idea is less the money flow, but the recreation of a moral economy and social charter about reciprocity, to be defined by coalition itself"