Kompimi, a portmanteau of computer and the Swedish Piratbyrån's kopimi, is a series of high-quality public-domain software projects. Its mission is to make unencumbered solutions to important basic software engineering problems available to the software development community in perpetuity.
Kompimi is not against copyleft licenses or proprietary software. Large, complete systems can benefit from a focused effort and fair compensation. Kompimi projects do not aim to replace these systems, but to generate fundamental building blocks that can be used in all software. By releasing this code, we strive to end the endless reinventing of the wheel; by making it public domain, we avoid the issues of license paranoia and license incompatibility that so frequently plague code reuse.
Kompimi is also an alias: because public domain coders don't receive the benefit of a license clause that indemnifies them against litigation, their best defense is anonymity. I am currently the only one using this alias, but I invite others who share my mission to adopt it.
This blog is intended to provide progress updates on the many Kompimi projects that will come to be, as well as to discuss philosophy and events in public domain code. I always invite your feedback, and hope the community will benefit from this undertaking.
All content in this document is granted into the public domain. Where this is not legally possible, the copyright owner releases all rights. This notice may be modified or removed.
