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Develop: FSF licences, libre vs open source, radically non-discriminatory, progressive guarantees (Theo point 16)

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	{{KidsIntro\|All of WikiDeal's software and writing is free for everyone to use and share. Nobody can lock it away or make it secret.}}		{{KidsIntro\|All of WikiDeal's software and writing is free for everyone to use and share. Nobody can lock it away or make it secret.}}
			{{ExpertIntro\|Systematic Libre Licensing means free/libre licences everywhere, by default, since the beginning: GNU AGPL v3 for software, CC BY-SA 4.0 for content. The licences are exactly those of the Free Software Foundation: libre in the pure sense, not merely open source. The aim is an environment of transparency: no technological backdoor, no partial privatization, no "half-free" trap, a radically non-discriminatory choice, with mechanisms progressively installed to guarantee free access to the contents, including the contracts.}}
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	== Systematic Libre Licensing ==		= Systematic Libre Licensing =
	''Innovation — WikiDeal R&D''		''Innovation, WikiDeal R&D''

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	\| Origin \|\| 🔴 Free Software Foundation		\| Origin \|\| 🔴 Free Software Foundation
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	\| Status \|\| ~~Prototype 1 — In testing~~		\| Status \|\| Deployed (100 percent since the beginning; July 2026, proposal)
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	=== What is it? ===		<span id="what-is-it"></span>
	Systematic Libre Licensing means WikiDeal uses free/libre licenses everywhere, by default: AGPL v3 for all software and CC BY-SA 4.0 for all content, with no exceptions. This guarantees that the WikiDeal commons cannot be privatized — derivative works and forks must remain open, so the shared resource stays shared.		== What is it? ==

	=== ~~How~~ it works ~~on WikiDeal~~ ===		Systematic Libre Licensing means that WikiDeal uses free/libre licences everywhere, by default, with no exceptions, and has done so since the beginning:
	~~Every piece~~ of ~~code~~ and ~~content is released under these copyleft licenses from~~ the ~~outset~~, ~~ensuring downstream reuse stays libre~~. ~~This protects~~ the ~~commons against~~ proprietary capture even ~~if parts~~ of the ~~project~~ are ~~forked~~. ~~License application~~ and ~~compliance~~ details ~~are documented progressively as~~ the ~~platform evolves~~.
			* [https://www.gnu.org/licenses/agpl-3.0.html GNU AGPL v3] for all software;
			* [https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/ CC BY-SA 4.0] for all content.

			The licences are '''exactly those of the [https://www.fsf.org/about/ Free Software Foundation]''': libre in the pure sense of the [https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html free software definition], not merely open source. The same standard applies to content, aligned with the [https://creativecommons.org/mission/ Creative Commons] culture of shareable, remixable works.

			<span id="libre-vs-open-source"></span>
			== Libre versus open source ==

			The [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_software_movement free software movement] (Free Software Foundation, 1985) frames software freedom as an ethical and social question: the freedom to use, study, share and improve. The later [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open-source-software_movement open source movement] (1998) reframed the same practices as a development method, putting the ethical dimension aside; the Free Software Foundation has documented [https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/open-source-misses-the-point.html why, in its view, open source misses the point]. A fuller account is given in the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_free_and_open-source_software history of free and open-source software].

			WikiDeal stands on the libre side of this history. The risks it intends to avoid are the "half-free" traps:

			* '''merely open source''' models, where openness can coexist with proprietary extensions, closed cloud services or open-core strategies;
			* '''non-commercial or restricted-field licences''' (such as CC non-commercial variants), which discriminate between users and uses.

			The choice stays '''radically non-discriminatory''': the same freedoms for everyone, for any purpose, guaranteed by [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyleft copyleft] so that derivative works remain libre.

			<span id="culture"></span>
			== The culture behind the choice ==

			Beyond the legal texts, this is a culture and a state of mind, drawing on the writings and practice of the Free Software Foundation and of Creative Commons: transparency as the default, cooperation over enclosure, and the conviction that shared resources stay healthy when nobody can lock them away.

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			== Intended impact ==

			The aim is an environment of '''transparency''':

			* no technological backdoor: with AGPL v3, anyone can study the code actually running the platform;
			* no partial privatization: copyleft prevents proprietary capture of the commons, even in case of forks;
			* no dependence on the goodwill of a single owner: the community can always continue the work.

			<span id="progressive-guarantees"></span>
			== Progressive guarantee mechanisms ==

			Mechanisms are progressively installed to guarantee free access to the contents, including the contracts: publication under CC BY-SA 4.0, versioned public histories, and creative clauses intended to allow healthy relations and the recreation of trust between parties. The same care applies to the security and privacy of user data: private data (identity, contract variables, personal details) stays private by default and under user control, while the reusable commons (contract bases, published statistics) stays libre by design.

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	'''See also:''' [[Gov/en/Portal:R&D/Innovations:Main\|All innovations]] · [[Gov/en/Portal:R&D/Main\|R&D Portal]]		'''See also:''' [[Gov/en/Portal:Meta/Licensing-and-Credits\|Licensing and credits]] · [[Gov/en/Portal:R&D/Innovations:Collaborative Contract Editing\|Collaborative Contract Editing]] · [[Gov/en/Portal:R&D/Innovations:Main\|All innovations]] · [[Gov/en/Portal:R&D/Main\|R&D Portal]]

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'''Libre Licensing''' — WikiDeal socio-economic innovation.

''Here is a first content idea for this page.'' systematic free licensing. This page describes the innovation, its intention, and the context in which it fits within WikiDeal's model.

''Reference language: English. This is a starter page — content to be expanded.''

See also: [[Gov/en/Portal:R&D/Innovations:Main|All innovations]] · [[Gov/en/Portal:R&D/Main|R&D Portal]]