Prompt 16: What should a licence be about?

Séverine Dusollier sent us three prompts after we met for an afternoon to record a conversation (We might turn the conversation into a podcast. You'll find the transcript here). Séverine has been a long time close collaborator and inspiration to us. As a lawyer developing critical approaches to copyright and IP, she brings a particular perspective.

In her third prompt, she asks as to think about the operational agency of a licence that is concerned with reuse.

What a licence is/should be about (or not):

Owning
Belonging
Sharing
Releasing
Giving
Granting
Relinquishing
Licensing
Authorising
Excluding
Including
Opening
Closing
Caring
Collaborating
Co-creating
Co-authoring
Practising
Living
Governing
Deciding
Conditioning
Inviting
Building
Making
Unmaking
Disappropriating
Enabling
Commoning
Creating
Assigning
Attributing
Connecting
Publicising
Organising
Troubling
Weaving
Sowing
Planting
Meaning
Making kin
Inheriting
Nurturing
Speculating
Receiving
Performing
Freeing
Empowering
Playing
Experimenting
Distributing
Transmitting
…

Please keep adding to the list.