Quilibrium

I expect this to get a little bit of controversy so I wanted to start the discussion now:

Quilibrium’s codebase needs a license. We want to choose one that prevents Amazon grift — AWS should not be allowed to deploy an alt net either as a service or to power their own infra, but they are free to join the mainnet.

BDFL of Quilibrium, Eng @ Farcaster, ex-Coinbase, always opinionated, never hydrated

/quilibrium

For a long time, I had been considering something like the SSPL — Q, Inc. will not be the holder, but rather a separate foundation, so that the company does not get to commercialize the protocol directly by running an alt net either. The SSPL unfortunately hasn’t been properly tested, and feels unfairly vague.

One thing is clear though, it does need to be at least as strong as the AGPL — there are portions of the codebase indeed covered by the GPL.

The AGPL seems like a good approach, except there’s clever legal strategies to play “I’m not touching you” games that would re-enable the Amazon grift.