Mandate for Open-Source Development

Introduction

This mandate was voted on by members in the internal referendum PDAO #2 - Mandate for Open-Source Development, which received 9 aye votes and 1 abstain vote from 10 members, and is effective from the 21st of April, 2025.

Description

It is mandatory for the complete suite of community- and user-facing software produced by Permanence DAO to be developed and maintained as open-source throughout both the development and release cycles. This is to ensure:

  1. The protection of the community and users through open and auditable codebases.
  2. Alignment with the ethos of free software, Web3, and cypherpunk values.
  3. Open access to the knowledge embedded in the code for any interested developer.

This mandate applies to, but is not limited to:

  1. Chat bots
  2. Voting automation infrastructure
  3. Websites
  4. User-facing software products

Current set of tools developed by the DAO members and used by the DAO are fully open-source:

  1. Opensquare (Link, GitHub)
  2. Telegram bot and supporting services (GitHub)
  3. Website (Link, GitHub)
  4. Documentation site Link, (GitHub)

All future software development is to be carried out in a repository under the DAO’s official GitHub organisation, currently at https://github.com/permanence-dao.

A separate proposal will be submitted to determine the specific licence types (e.g. MIT, Apache 2.0, or GPLv3) to be applied to different use cases.