The current patent system is broken, Citizen Patent is our attempt to fix it.
Based on Fact Asset, it covers everything from intellectual property to commercialisation.
Protecting Your Work (and ours)
Transitioning from a passive Compute User to an active Compute Owner means you now have intellectual assets you need to protect and manage.
Fact Asset provides a way of earning income from your compute and data, but since you are the owner, you can also complement it or replace it with your own protection e.g. with traditional technologies like licenses and patents.
Improving on Dual Licensing
Dual licensing means the possibility of having both a commercial and a non-commercial license for the same product. Traditional Dual Licensing uses a restricted non-commercial license e.g. strong copyleft license like AGPL3 to push people to pay for the commercial licenses.
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World Intellectual Property - 2019 - Maracke - Free and Open Source Software and FRAND‐based patent licenses.pdf
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But ultimately, how copyleft is the EUPL? | Interoperable Europe Portal
Copy Left Licensing
For software development we try to leverage as much existing source-available software as possible. In cases where there is no existing source-available software, we developed original software with dual source-available licenses (open source, non-commercial, commercial etc.).
To provide maximum flexibility and ensure maximum innovation, most Team Compute technologies are available with multiple source-available licenses, you are free to pick which license is best for your situation.
For example, the ONE CLICK installable Private Cyberspace software is DUAL licensed:
- an OSI approved EUPL-1.2 license for general use cases
- a commercial source-available license for special use cases
For people who want to support OSI, they can build their Private Cyberspaces completely with OSI approved Compute Modules, while others (e.g. defence departments) can mix and match Compute Modules with different licenses freely.
We believe this multiple license feature will encourage people with different views on Intellectual Property to work and grow together with all source code available to be viewed by all.
Traditional Patents
We agree with the EFF that the patent system is broken, but currently (in year 2026) there is no good practical and realistic alternative, so we have obtained traditional patent protection to prevent exploitation by the big techs.
We respect EFF's Defend Innovation attempt to fix the patent system, but we believe Fact Asset will be able to protect and fuel innovation substantially better than any legislation.