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THIS REPOSITORY IS FULLY DEPRECATED AND IS ARCHIVED ONLY FOR EDUCATION USE
As other version of licenses are released, it makes no sense to continue developing this license. In fact, this license is now converged into (Holloway) Chew, Kean Ho's Permissive License. Please use that license.
A published research and experimentation friendly open-source license originally for (Holloway) Chew, Kean Ho but is now open to all product licensing purposes. This license was referenced from Open Source Initiative's BSD 3 Clauses License, Open Source Initiative's BSD 3 Clauses Clear License, Open Source Initiative's BSD 2 Clauses Patent License, Open Source Initiative's BSD 2 Clauses License, and Open Source Initiative's MIT License but was adopted and written from the Open Source Initiative's Apache 2.0 License and Creative Common Licenses as its baseline and applied the following changes:
- Changed
Software
toProduct
so that the license can be expanded to non-software product licensing usage (e.g. graphics, video, manufacturing design, audio, etc) without needing to spin multiple outbound licenses; AND - Added license assignment, ratification, and tenure section to specify when and how is the license applied; AND
- Added version controlled clauses for which version shall be in effect by default; AND
- Added artifical intelligence training dataset usage clauses; AND
- Added Sensitive Data warranty and liability coverage; AND
- Added global vendors (e.g. datacenter) Sensitive Data limitation of liability; AND
- Added force manjure limitation of liability; AND
- Added global vendors (e.g. datacenter) Sensitive Data limitation of liability; AND
- Added judiciary minimal damage values limitation of liability; AND
- Expanded grant clauses into Creative Commons' rights categories; AND
- Added geographical indicator coverage; AND
- Added protected geographical indicator coverage; AND
- Added protected designation indicator coverage; AND
- Added industrial design use coverage; AND
- Added integrated circuit layout design use coverage; AND
- Added trade secret use coverage.
This repository was formally known as
(Holloway) Chew, Kean Ho BSD 3 Clauses License
but was renamed for
consistency purposes.
This repository is version controlled using semantic versioning definitions where:
- the
MAJOR
version denotes major legal changes; AND - the
MINOR
version denotes minor changes without altering the legal implication side of things such as but not limited to grammar correction, fonts, typo, and etc; AND - the
PATCH
version denotes the repository management changes such as but not limited to new language addition, updatingREADME.md
, and etc.
To use this license for your product licensing, you MUST, in layman terms, consider the following as your recipient perpectives:
- You're only allowed to use for personal deployment as long as you:
- SHALL AND STRICTLY REQUIRED to attribute to the copyright holders; AND
- SHALL accept that the creators are not responsible for anything of any kind; AND
- SHALL retain the copyright notices and effects of the product you use, be it in its raw form (e.g. source codes) or its produced form (compiled software binary files); AND
- SHALL NOT use the creators' name, brand, and trademark without their written notices for any endorsement of your pursue; AND
- are NOT REQUIRED to expose and upstream your changes back to the copyright holders all the way back to us (copyleft effect); AND
- SHALL, when applicable, obtain the grant of registered IP (e.g. patent, industrial design, IC layout design, etc) directly from the owner on your own before use; AND
- You're only allowed to use for commercial deployment as long as you:
- SHALL AND STRICTLY REQUIRED to attribute to the copyright holders; AND
- SHALL accept that the creators are not responsible for anything of any kind; AND
- SHALL retain the copyright notices and effects of the product you use, be it in its raw form (e.g. source codes) or its produced form (compiled software binary files); AND
- SHALL NOT use the creators' name, brand, and trademark without their written notices for any endorsement of your pursue; AND
- are NOT REQUIRED to expose and upstream your changes back to the copyright holders all the way back to us (copyleft effect); AND
- SHALL, when applicable, obtain the grant of registered IP (e.g. patent, industrial design, IC layout design, etc) directly from the owner on your own before use; AND
- You're only allowed to edit/modify as long as you:
- SHALL AND STRICTLY REQUIRED to attribute to the copyright holders; AND
- SHALL accept that the creators are not responsible for anything of any kind; AND
- SHALL retain the copyright notices and effects of the product you use, be it in its raw form (e.g. source codes) or its produced form (compiled software binary files); AND
- SHALL NOT use the creators' name, brand, and trademark without their written notices for any endorsement of your pursue; AND
- are NOT REQUIRED to expose and upstream your changes back to the copyright holders all the way back to us (copyleft effect); AND
- SHALL, when applicable, obtain the grant of registered IP (e.g. patent, industrial design, IC layout design, etc) directly from the owner on your own before use; AND
- You're only allowed to remix/remaster as long as you:
- SHALL AND STRICTLY REQUIRED to attribute to the copyright holders; AND
- SHALL accept that the creators are not responsible for anything of any kind; AND
- SHALL retain the copyright notices and effects of the product you use, be it in its raw form (e.g. source codes) or its produced form (compiled software binary files); AND
- SHALL NOT use the creators' name, brand, and trademark without their written notices for any endorsement of your pursue; AND
- are NOT REQUIRED to expose and upstream your changes back to the copyright holders all the way back to us (copyleft effect); AND
- SHALL, when applicable, obtain the grant of registered IP (e.g. patent, industrial design, IC layout design, etc) directly from the owner on your own before use; AND
- You're only allowed to distribute as long as you:
- SHALL AND STRICTLY REQUIRED to attribute to the copyright holders; AND
- SHALL accept that the creators are not responsible for anything of any kind; AND
- SHALL retain the copyright notices and effects of the product you use, be it in its raw form (e.g. source codes) or its produced form (compiled software binary files); AND
- SHALL NOT use the creators' name, brand, and trademark without their written notices for any endorsement of your pursue; AND
- are NOT REQUIRED to expose and upstream your changes back to the copyright holders all the way back to us (copyleft effect); AND
- SHALL, when applicable, obtain the grant of registered IP (e.g. patent, industrial design, IC layout design, etc) directly from the owner on your own before use; AND
- You're only allowed to re-distribute as long as you:
- SHALL AND STRICTLY REQUIRED to attribute to the copyright holders; AND
- SHALL accept that the creators are not responsible for anything of any kind; AND
- SHALL retain the copyright notices and effects of the product you use, be it in its raw form (e.g. source codes) or its produced form (compiled software binary files); AND
- SHALL NOT use the creators' name, brand, and trademark without their written notices for any endorsement of your pursue; AND
- are NOT REQUIRED to expose and upstream your changes back to the copyright holders all the way back to us (copyleft effect); AND
- SHALL, when applicable, obtain the grant of registered IP (e.g. patent, industrial design, IC layout design, etc) directly from the owner on your own before use; AND
- You're only allowed to perform any miscellaneous rights not mentioned above
as long as you:
- SHALL AND STRICTLY REQUIRED to attribute to the copyright holders; AND
- SHALL accept that the creators are not responsible for anything of any kind; AND
- SHALL retain the copyright notices and effects of the product you use, be it in its raw form (e.g. source codes) or its produced form (compiled software binary files); AND
- SHALL NOT use the creators' name, brand, and trademark without their written notices for any endorsement of your pursue; AND
- are NOT REQUIRED to expose and upstream your changes back to the copyright holders all the way back to us (copyleft effect); AND
- SHALL, when applicable, obtain the grant of registered IP (e.g. patent, industrial design, IC layout design, etc) directly from the owner on your own before use.
The latest license files shall be referenced and be downloadable from:
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13777226
The following are the license notice within the supported languages:
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(the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13777226
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