WHAT RIGHTS AND FREEDOMS DO I GET FOR THE SOFTWARE BEHIND THIS WEB SERVICE?

For Free, Forever and for this Service and any future public modification or installation by anyone, you get the following rights and means to assert them:

• Right to Use, without advertising.
• Right to Download, Install, Audit and Modify.
• Means to Verify All Source Code, at any given time, on all machines running any part of The Service.

After signing brief statements, declaring that you will  give to web users of any modification you will make public, the same freedoms we are giving you above, you can download all the source code run by this web service:

HOW CAN YOU GUARANTEE THOSE RIGHTS TO ANY FUTURE OR MODIFIED VERSION?

TFF believes it has found a mechanism through which the GPLv2 "ASP loophole" itself can be used as an instrument in order to fix itself; much as the original copyleft movement used the extensive powers given by laws to copyright holders of content, to ultimately increase the power and freedom of users of derivative content.
Read the following QAs and the provided links to get a full picture on how we do that.

HOW DO I MODIFY, EXTEND OR IMPROVE DO2GETHER AND RUN IT ON MY OWN SERVER OR SUBDOMAIN?

1. Download, sign and fax this 1-page Modifier Statement. In such statement, you commit to give anyone the same freedoms and obligations you are receiving here from us, for any modification of this software you will make public.

2. Within 1 business day, TFF will provide you with login and password to download the compiled and source code of all software running in that moment, and that that has been running at any given moment since the launch of The Service.

HOW CAN I, OR A TRUSTED PERSON, VERIFY THE SOFTWARE RUNNING ON THE SERVERS AT ANY GIVEN TIME?

1. Download, sign and fax in the Reviewer Statement. In such statement, you simply state that in case you decided to modify the material you downloaded, you would first fill a Modifier Agreement.

2. Within 1 business day, TFF will provide you with login and password to download the compiled and source code of all software running in that moment, and that that has been running at any given moment since the launch of The Service.

3. We are not asking you to trust us. You, as anyone, can now or anytime in the future instruct us via email to add you to a list of Registered Auditors or to candidate yourself to be an Elected Auditor. Then you will be invited to be physically present every time the servers running The Service will be accessed by anyone for hardware or software modification of any kind.

WHY ARE YOU NOT RELEASING YOUR SOFTWARE UNDER THE GNU GPLV3?

Do2gether.net is a software-centered telematic service, offered by the Telematics Freedom Foundation (TFF), available primarily through the Internet. Many and varied software programs are needed to run this Service: operating systems, web servers, databases, web application frameworks and web application, whose copyright is owned by the Telematics Freedom Foundation (TFF) and other non-profit organizations.

Such software programs are publicly available under FLOSS licenses, except modifications of such other software, whose copyright is held by TFF. Such TFF software, being a modification of these other FLOSS software, must abide to the terms of their licenses as modifications, or derivative works.
Under those terms, mostly the GNU GPLv2 license, TFF must extend those same rights to all recipients of derivatives, but not to actual users of the software through a web browser or to people that TFF hires to modify or extend the software.

This creates the current paradox where software users globally, who increasingly use software through a web browser interface, end up having no rights at all beyond the right of use, with or without charge. Worse even, most of the software they are using is a derivative of FLOSS software - developed mostly by thousands of well-intentioned volunteer developers - becomes the most powerful instrument for large web software giants to keep people with even less rights, than those given to them by traditional desktop proprietary software licenses.

Authors of new versions of the most used copyleft FLOSS license, GNU GPL v.3, have intended to fix such “freedom bug” for a long time. Unfortunately, for many contingent reasons, from the latest drafts of such license, it appears that fixes will only be partial and optional. Also, it is not clear nor probable at this stage that most or many copyright holders of widely-used web-accessible FLOSS will decide to make  their software available under this new license.

Such optional clause entails that a web users of such software should be able to download the software he is using from a link on the same website. Unfortunately, though, it does not provide any means to verify that the software that the software I download from that link is really the software that is actually running in that moment; or, for that matter, was running 2 hours ago or will be running next week. Things may change with the release of a new Affero GPLv2 which will be made "compatible" with GPLv3. But it's discussion has not been public at all to this point.

It is unacceptable to us that - in an era where our constitutional rights of speech and civic participation are more and more exercised through software-controlled communications network, such as Internet and voip networks - we have no way to verify to what extend software we use remotely, as well as locally, may or may not be ensuring those rights.
But we have a solution for all these! read below!

Definitions

• The Work:  Any code, files and documentation, whose copyright is owned by The Provider, either fully, or limited by it’s being a derivative of FLOSS licensed software. It does not include code that TFF may have publicly released under a FLOSS license.
• Derivative Work:  Any code, files or documentation that incorporates, is based on or is derived from, all or in part, from The Work, including those performed by The Provider.
• The Service: Any remote communication service enabled by The Work, managed by The Provider, offered to individual citizens or non-profit organizations. It may also refer to any Derivative Service.
  

• Derivative Service: Any remote communication service, operated by anyone, that makes use of The Work or any Derivative Work.
• The Provider: The non-profit organizations that is responsible for and manages The Service or Derivative Service. The entity fully responsible for the hosting contracts for the provision of The Service.
• "make public":  It is said of The Service or a Derivative Service, when it is has over 1000 active users, for at least 3 consecutive calendar months.
• "active user": user of The Service or Derivative Service that has initiated at least 3 communications with such Service over the past calendar month.
• The Service Works: all software, compiled and source code, including The Work and Derivative Works, which is necessary to provide The Service.