Source licenses are the gates through which individuals pass on their way to forming communities. The key property of a community is how it self-organizes around a shared purpose to move the code forward, and the key to understanding how this happens comes from sources all concerned in one way or another with non-hierarchical, non-command-and-control organizations. We'll look at the theory behind the creation of the Jini Community and what we did to create the community over the course of a year. Find out how, within the constraints of a large company, we used ideas on Chaords, complexity science, pattern languages, political science, history, the hacker ethic, the software patterns community, literary theory, cultural anthropology, and postmodernism to create a self-organizing, self-governing software development community of some 40,000 individuals, schools, and companies.