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* Research and development is under [[GFDL]] - some sections, e.g. [[glossary]] may have to be [[GFDL Invariant Section]]s to avoid tampering and sabotage by those who want to create a counter-Consumerium to hide truth about products.
* Research and development is under [[GFDL]] - some sections, e.g. [[glossary]] may have to be [[GFDL Invariant Section]]s to avoid tampering and sabotage by those who want to create a counter-Consumerium to hide truth about products.
* [[XML]] [[DTD]]s and [[Schema]]s are under [[GPL]] or [[LGPL]] (more licensing schemes are considered) - again viral so that no [[bad copy problem|bad copies]] or [[self-interested fork]]s can be created without us stopping them. 
* [[XML]] [[DTD]]s and [[Schema]]s are under [[GPL]] (more licensing schemes, such as [[LGPL]], are considered)
* License for the actual [[Server]] and [[Client]] software isn't decided yet but it'll probably be something on the order of [[w:Apache server]] style to stop installation of [[bad copy problem|unconformant software '''pretending to be genuine''']] [[Consumerium]] software. This is very important, because the [[Retail]]ers will totally freak out if there is even an minor possibility that the [[Price]] information can leak outside the physical shop.  So there must be a [[Consumerium protocol]] that is actually implemented for this data exchange.
* License for the actual [[Server]] and [[Client]] software isn't decided yet but it'll probably be something on the order of [[w:Apache server]] style to stop installation of [[bad copy problem|unconformant software '''pretending to be genuine''']] [[Consumerium]] software. This is very important, because the [[Retail]]ers will totally freak out if there is even an minor possibility that the [[Price]] information can leak outside the physical shop.  So there must be a [[Consumerium protocol]] that is actually implemented for this data exchange.


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