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

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