Licensing

CounterSocial is comprised of many elements, both open source and proprietary code. As such, and in order to comply with the various complex and differing open license agreements we release our service(s) under the umbrella of an OPEN CORE license. Individual component license compliance is detailed in this document below. The open-core model is a business model for the use of commercially produced open-source software. The open-core model primarily involves offering a "core" or feature-limited version of a software product as free and open-source software, while offering "commercial" versions or add-ons as proprietary software. More information on the Open Core model can be found here and here.

Under this model, proprietary intellectual property, while integrated, primarily comprises of technology built on separate stacks, using separate technology, languages, databases, often served via different servers, daemons and/or even subdomains to CounterSocial Core. These features and/or functions are generally available to CounterSocial Pro account holders and are largely embedded objects, 'frames' and worker processes located at our infrastructure edge. Modifications to any open codebases is deployment specific and where applicable the source code is released under the corresponding open license below.

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Countersocial remains in compliance with the following open licences and credits the associated codebases:

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Affero General Public License 3.0

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COUNTERSOCIAL CORE is based on, and forked from original AGPLv3 code by 'Mastodon', and in compliance with the AGPLv3 license releases it's open sourced codebase via Github here under the very same AGPLv3 license.

CounterSocial Core is freely released under, and in accordance with, the AGPLv3 license (Affero General Public License) as published by the Free Software Foundation. This software is made available WITHOUT WARRANTY; without implied warranty of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.

The original codebase upon which CounterSocial Core is based can also be found on Github here. All copyrights remain intact. The original copyright notice and license agreement as published by 'Mastodon' can be found here.

Additionally, a short history of CounterSocial and Mastodon can be found here.

COUNTERSOCIAL LEGACY (single column mode) is based on, and forked from original AGPLv3 code by 'Nipos', and in compliance with the AGPLv3 license - the source code can be found via the NotABug repository here.

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Apache License 2.0

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COUNTERSOCIAL CALLS is based on original Apache License 2.0 code by 'Jitsi', and in compliance with the Apache License 2.0 license includes the following copyright notice and copy of the Apache License 2.0 as issued by Jitsi. The original codebase upon which CounterSocial Calls is based can also be found on Github here. All original copyrights remain intact. THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.

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ANTI-CAPITALIST SOFTWARE LICENSE

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SOCKWATCH (inside COSO Console) is based on an original concept from Travis Brown and released under his own ANTI-CAPITALIST SOFTWARE LICENSE (v 1.4), and in compliance with his license we include the following notice hosted on our own infrastructure and certify it is a true copy of Travis Browns original license as of 7/13/2022 as issued by Travis Brown. THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.

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SEE RELATED: Terms of Service and Privacy Policy and DMCA Policy and GDPR Policy and CCPA Policy and LEA Policy and License

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This document was last updated July 13 2022.