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Products that do what Common Sense License (CSL) – civic license for a techno-feudal world does
The CSL is an attempt to rethink software licensing in a way that balances freedom, sustainability, and fairness. It’s inspired by the idea that our digital infrastructure increasingly mirrors feudal systems: concentrated power, obligations flowing upward, and everyday users left vulnerable. The license is designed to give creators a practical alternative to proprietary or exploitative models, while encouraging transparency, collaboration, and equitable distribution. I’d love to hear thoughts from developers, legal experts, and anyone experimenting with bootstrapped projects.
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We believe that AI should be fully open source and part of the collective knowledge. The original LLaMA code is GPL licensed which means any project using it must also be released under GPL. This "taints" any other code and prevents meaningful academic and commercial use. Lit-LLaMA solves that for good.
2023 · github.com
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2023 · github.com
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2019 · open-registry.dev
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2017 · keygen.sh
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2017 · certstream.calidog.io
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2024 · github.com
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I created this because sometimes I want more than rlwrap but less than emacs. icl aims to hit that middle sweet spot. It's a terminal application with context-aware auto-complete, an interactive object inspector, auto-indentation, syntax colouring, persistent history, and much more. It uses sly to communicate with the child lisp process and aims to be compatible with any sly-supporting implementation. I hope others find it useful!
Dec 2025 · github.com
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This free, open-source .NET library allows you to license your non-free applications through activation keys. Follow the quick start instructions and try it out in 5 minutes! Available on: NuGet https://www.nuget.org/packages/SNBS.Licensing.ActivationKeys... Website (full docs, downloads) https://snbslibs.github.io/Licensing.ActivationKeys GitHub (downloads, full docs, release notes etc.) https://github.com/SNBSLibs/Licensing.ActivationKeys
2023 · github.com
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2022 · manishrjain.com
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2018 · github.com
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Feb 2026 · github.com
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A book of common sense in the era of thinking machines.
Jun 2026 · thethinkingbuilder.com
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Hey! I'm Miles, I built this tool to be a fast and reliable solution for generating licenses on the CLI. Licensing has always been a point of stress for me, with how much is at stake. If I copy one from the wrong website, the version I download is the wrong one, or any number of mishaps, my whole code is at risk. We see this fiasco play out all the time. We shake our saddened heads and go on. No longer! Lichen is designed to generate licenses sensibly with three words on the CLI. `lic gen MIT`. Or in a `.lichen.toml` in your project root. Add authors/maintainers with --authors, date it…
2025 · github.com
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2020 · github.com
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Open-source project management with AI & GitHub integration.
May 2026 · fairlx.com
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Certo is open-source infrastructure for issuing, managing, verifying, and exchanging digital credentials. It implements Open Badges 3.0[1] and W3C Verifiable Credentials[2] which are the open standards that make credentials portable, machine-verifiable, and vendor-independent. It is designed to be: - Self-hosted: run it inside your own infrastructure, air-gapped network, or sovereign cloud - Standards-compliant: credentials it issues work with any OB3/VC-compatible system - API-first: everything the UI can do, the API can do - Exportable: your data is always yours, in open formats -…
Aug 2026 · github.com
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Hey HN, A few months ago I realized licensing my app wasn't as straightforward as I expected. There was too much setup just to create a license, and the customer experience was not great. All I wanted was for licenses to be generated automatically when I got paid, and for customers to manage their own licenses. So I built Keyforge, a simple software licensing platform for developers. It integrates with Stripe so that licenses are created automatically when someone purchases or subscribes to your product. There's also a self-serve customer portal where users can manage their licenses,…
2025 · keyforge.dev
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Jan 2026 · certradar.net
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I work as an engineer at the Dutch government. We have hundreds of technical standards that developers should follow when building government software: API design rules, messaging protocols, authentication profiles, accessibility requirements. The problem is that most developers don't know these standards exist until someone reviews their code (if at all). Skills are Markdown files that inject domain knowledge into AI coding tools. When a developer starts building an API, the tool automatically loads the relevant standard. No plugins to write, no code. Just structured knowledge in Markdown.…
Feb 2026 · anneschuth.nl
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