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I wish I was present at the @ETAPSconf business meeting, unfortunately I could not attend the conference. On the subject of licensing differences between LNCS and LipiCS, it was reported to me that the LipiCS representative affirmed that there was “no formal difference” with Springer. Could someone who was there clarify what was said? The claim is very surprising, given that the contract I signed with Springer for ESOP demanded exclusive rights that allow relicensing (i.e. Springer has all rights who then give some back to everyone including authors via a CC license, with rights to sell more permissive licences to LLM companies), whereas an author agreement form for LipiCS which I could find online demands non-exclusive rights (roughly speaking providing LipiCS with a CC license). This sounds like a very formal difference! edit: since there are a lot of acronyms in this post: - LNCS: Lecture Notes in Computer Science (Springer book series) - LipiCS: Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics by Dagstuhl Publishing - ESOP: a computer science conference part of @ETAPSconf - CC: creative commons - LLM: large language model