# Licensing

**URL:** https://discourse.sustainoss.org/c/working-groups/licensing/6.md

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## [About the Licensing category](https://discourse.sustainoss.org/t/about-the-licensing-category/24)

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**Author:** [@eric](https://discourse.sustainoss.org/u/eric)\
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Here we can discuss open source licensing

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## [Book about licensing](https://discourse.sustainoss.org/t/book-about-licensing/330)

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**Author:** [@gustavo](https://discourse.sustainoss.org/u/gustavo)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [April 20, 2020, 7:00pm UTC](https://discourse.sustainoss.org/t/book-about-licensing/330 "2020-04-20T19:00:09Z")

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I’m writing a book about open source licensing (https://gum.co/demystifying-oss-licensing). Different than the other books about this subject, my intention is to highlight practical examples about what could go wrong wh…

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## [Parity License vs. GPL](https://discourse.sustainoss.org/t/parity-license-vs-gpl/229)

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**Author:** [@HankG](https://discourse.sustainoss.org/u/HankG)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [December 15, 2019, 6:46am UTC](https://discourse.sustainoss.org/t/parity-license-vs-gpl/229 "2019-12-15T06:46:31Z")

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I’ve been on a bit of a tear reading up on open source sustainability this week. It wasn’t intentional. One of the rabbit holes I went down put me face to face with this Parity License. I had never heard of it. A curs…

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## [Trademark better than copyright to sustain OSS](https://discourse.sustainoss.org/t/trademark-better-than-copyright-to-sustain-oss/202)

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**Author:** [@medjawii](https://discourse.sustainoss.org/u/medjawii)\
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**Last updated:** [July 8, 2019, 12:56pm UTC](https://discourse.sustainoss.org/t/trademark-better-than-copyright-to-sustain-oss/202 "2019-07-08T12:56:29Z")

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Hi, Since Sustain OSS, we have been working on new ways to help maintainers sustain their maintenance efforts and we are developping a Maintainers’ contract, based mostly on monetizing the commercial usage of the tradem…

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## [Licensing Challenges](https://discourse.sustainoss.org/t/licensing-challenges/89)

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**Author:** [@pia](https://discourse.sustainoss.org/u/pia)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [December 13, 2018, 8:48pm UTC](https://discourse.sustainoss.org/t/licensing-challenges/89 "2018-12-13T20:48:13Z")

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