LICENSE@186b0a286431 (annotated)
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Wed, 15 Dec 2021 10:35:57 +0200
- author
- Tuomo Valkonen <tuomov@iki.fi>
- date
- Wed, 15 Dec 2021 10:35:57 +0200
- changeset 31
- 186b0a286431
- parent 16
- fc1ce359bb51
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Improve license phrasing
| 31 | 1 | |
| 2 | # Anti-abuse license | |
| 3 | ||
| 4 | ## Rationale | |
| 5 | ||
| 6 | The purpose of this license is to give end-users and developers maximal | |
| 7 | freedom to use this software while preventing the authors from being | |
| 8 | abused by powerful middle-men that repackage software for convenient | |
| 9 | installation by users. Such potentially abusive middle-men include in | |
| 10 | particular Linux distributions and similar centralising software | |
| 11 | distribution schemes developed for other operating systems. | |
| 12 | The ethos of this license is *bollocks to copyright and distributions!* | |
| 13 | ||
| 14 | ## Rules | |
| 15 | 15 | |
| 31 | 16 | This software is distributed without any warranty whatsoever. |
| 17 | ||
| 18 | If you redistribute modified versions of this software to the public, | |
| 19 | you must clearly mark them as modified. | |
| 20 | ||
| 21 | If you redistribute this software to the public as part of a large | |
| 22 | collection of software with the purpose of providing end-users with | |
| 23 | a convenient installation method, you must do one of the following: | |
| 24 | ||
| 25 | (a) Always redistribute the **unmodified** and **latest** version | |
| 26 | provided by the authors. If the lead author releases a new version (on a | |
| 27 | specific branch, such as 'stable' or 'development'), you must promptly | |
| 28 | make that new version the default version offered to your users (on | |
| 29 | that specific branch). | |
| 15 | 30 | |
| 31 | (b) Rename the software, and make it obvious that your modified or obsolete | |
| 31 | 32 | software is in no way connected to the authors of the original software. |
| 33 | The users of your version should under no circumstances be under the | |
| 34 | illusion that they can contact the lead author or any of the authors | |
| 35 | of the original software if they have any complaints or queries. | |
| 15 | 36 | |
| 16 | 37 | (c) Do not in any way directly expose this software to your users. |
| 38 | ||
| 15 | 39 | Otherwise, do whatever you want with this software. In particular, you may |
| 31 | 40 | freely use the software as part of other projects, and redistribute to |
| 41 | the public archival copies of the software (as long as your archive cannot | |
| 42 | be considered a “convenient installation method” that will be governed by | |
| 43 | the rules above). |
