Copyleft Notice
The Collaborative Governance Model, Framework, Exchange, and the Protocol.Love (collectively, CoGov) by Collaborative Governance Solutions Collective is licensed under Attribution 4.0 International.
CoGov is copyleft, which means that it cannot be copyrighted. CoGov is also open source code, which means that the original distinctions, thoughtmaps, heartware, thoughtware, models, and processes are freely available for people to use, improve, and derive further works. Specifically, we adopt the Creative Commons licensing protocol (Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike International 4.0 License) (CC BY S-A Intl. 4.0) which states that derived works should also carry the legal attribution and share-alike clauses. Anybody, anywhere, who has the ability to consciously understand and responsibly use the heartware, thoughtware, distinctions, thoughtmaps, tools and processes of CoGov has full authority and responsibility to further expand, deepen, clarify, evolve, apply, and share them. There is no (and actually cannot be any) individual or organization who can limit the development of, exclude others from making use of, or demand a license fee, percentage, royalty, or commission from others using or teaching the CoGov Model. People who deliver CoGov based classes, workshops, trainings or processes, of course, need to receive compensation for their services. But the context, heartware, distinctions, and thoughtware of radical responsibility cannot be copyrighted. All further development of the CoGov Model feeds Gaia’s creative commons.
Copyleft is appropriate because the growing set of tools, processes, and thoughtmaps through which CoGov is applied come from an inexhaustible source of clarity and possibility open to all who can access it. In fact, one objective of CoGov training is to prepare you to personally jack into the same bright principles that empower CoGov so that these bright principles can serve you for the rest of your life as resources, and through you, and your people.
You are free to:
- Share — copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format
- Adapt — remix, transform, and build upon the material for any purpose, even commercially.
The licensor cannot revoke these freedoms as long as you follow the license terms.
Under the following terms:
- Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.
- No additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.
Notices:
- You do not have to comply with the license for elements of the material in the public domain or where your use is permitted by an applicable exception or limitation.
- No warranties are given. The license may not give you all of the permissions necessary for your intended use. For example, other rights such as publicity, privacy, or moral rights may limit how you use the material.
- Licensing inquiries can be made to hello [at] cogov [.] tools.
