Licenses#

Balospe.com uses two licensing frameworks, each designed for a different purpose. Both are grounded in the principle that existential emergencies require radical openness, while long-term stability requires that published versions cannot be silently rewritten.

The Jonah License (JoLi)#

The Jonah License places content in the public domain under CC0, with an additional moral appeal: use this content gentle kind reasonably to avert Armageddon, version and date your changes if you can, and prepare to explain on Judgement Day what you failed to do with it.

JoLi is the primary license for all content on this site and for all FeedbackFlow submissions.

Status: MockupModel v1 (JoLi MMv1_2024m10d18). See the full JoLi text.

The Cycrus License (CyLi) — draft#

The Cycrus License is designed to enable institutionally reliable implementation of StayVS. Its core principle:

What has been published cannot be revoked, but newer versions can be published.

This mirrors how StayVS works: any published version (OOv1, PPv2, etc.) is a permanent record. You cannot silently rewrite it. But you can publish an updated version that supersedes it, with full version history preserved.

CyLi is intended for situations where institutions, researchers, and contributors need confidence that:

  1. Their published contributions will remain accessible and attributable.

  2. No one — including the original author — can retroactively alter what was published under a given version number.

  3. Improvements are always possible through new versions, with the versioning history itself being an immutable public record.

Why “Cycrus”? The name honors Cyrus the Great, who issued the first known declaration of human rights and enabled the return of exiled peoples to rebuild their heritage. CyLi aims to similarly protect the integrity of intellectual contributions while enabling continuous renewal.

Status: Informal draft (CyLi MMv0r1_2026m03d31). Details are forthcoming. The formal specification will be developed as part of the broader StayVS and POST System infrastructure.