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An onion-routing network that rides on Oxen Service Nodes, the same infrastructure behind Session, which is both its differentiator and its risk: a smaller, less-scrutinized network than Tor with a far thinner relay base. That means weaker anonymity-set guarantees in practice, however clever the design. It’s worth watching and experimenting with if mixnet alternatives interest you. For anything where your safety actually depends on the result, Tor’s maturity and scale still win.

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oxen-io/lokinet
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GPL-3.0
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Lokinet license, in plain English
GPL-3.0
Strong copyleft

Free to use and modify, but anything you distribute that is built on it must also be open under the same license.

Permits

  • Commercial use
  • Modification
  • Distribution
  • Patent use
  • Private use

Requires

  • Disclose source
  • Same license
  • State changes
  • License and copyright notice

Does not provide

  • Liability cover
  • Warranty

Why it matters: Strong copyleft keeps every distributed version open. A vendor cannot fold this into a closed product and ship it without releasing their changes.

Plain-language summary of the project's license, not legal advice. Read the full text for the exact terms.