(Holloway) Chew, Kean Ho's General Public Open Source License
Creators: name: Chew, Kean Ho
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Product
License
Open Source
General Public

description: IMPORTANT NOTICE

THIS REPOSITORY IS FULLY DISCONTINUED AND IS ARCHIVED ONLY FOR EDUCATION USE

After obtaining feedbacks from Open Source Initiatives and deep considerations with the author's legal counterparts, this license is decided to be dicontinued as there is already an initiative dealing with copyleft open source license. Moreover, other commericalization licenses are far more important that this license economically.

Hence, the decision is made.


A published general public friendly open-source license with strong copyleft effect originally for (Holloway) Chew, Kean Ho but is now open to all product licensing purposes. This license was referenced from FSF's GPLv2 License and FSF's GPLv3 License but was adopted and re-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 to Product 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

No inclusion of software lockdown prohibition (known as "tivoization") clauses where the prohibition itself is perceived as an restrictive right to use and there are valid use cases such as secure initialization/booting using cryptographic digital signature verification; AND

Explictly stated that the license overrules any patent, trade secret, or any secrecy's terms and conditions if they are contributed into the Product which nullify their exclusivities. The Contributor that does this knowingly or unknowingly shall bear full responsibility including legal actions from the owning stakeholders; AND

Expanded grant clauses into Creative Commons' rights categories; AND

Added artifical intelligence training dataset 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

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.




WARNING: When in doubts OR without absolute certainty, stay clear of this license.




Version Controlled


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, updating README.md, and etc.




License Nature


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 all the copyright holders; AND

SHALL accept that the creators are not responsible for anything of any kind; AND

SHALL retain the same 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

SHALL upstream all your changes in source back to all the copyright owners all the way to the source of origin if you use any content not designated as "Externally Usable Interface" on its content licensing notice; AND

SHALL NOT need to upstream anything if you strictly and only use the designated "Externally Usable Interface" with the product; AND

SHALL bear FULL repsonsibilities for upstreaming sensitive and registered data like personal data, patent, industrial design, IC design, etc as this license will force them to open up and eventually nullify their exclusivities or confidentiality (site-note: without an IP lawyer, just don't include); AND

SHALL have all your changes and contents be forced to be re-licensed under this license (the copyleft effect) in a non-negociable way; AND



You're only allowed to use for commercial deployment as long as you:



SHALL AND STRICTLY REQUIRED to attribute all the copyright holders; AND

SHALL accept that the creators are not responsible for anything of any kind; AND

SHALL retain the same 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

SHALL upstream all your changes in source back to all the copyright owners all the way to the source of origin if you use any content not designated as "Externally Usable Interface" on its content licensing notice; AND

SHALL NOT need to upstream anything if you strictly and only use the designated "Externally Usable Interface" with the product; AND

SHALL bear FULL repsonsibilities for upstreaming sensitive and registered data like personal data, patent, industrial design, IC design, etc as this license will force them to open up and eventually nullify their exclusivities or confidentiality (site-note: without an IP lawyer, just don't include); AND

SHALL have all your changes and contents be forced to be re-licensed under this license (the copyleft effect) in a non-negociable way; AND



You're only allowed to edit/modify as long as you:



SHALL AND STRICTLY REQUIRED to attribute all the copyright holders; AND

SHALL accept that the creators are not responsible for anything of any kind; AND

SHALL retain the same 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

SHALL upstream all your changes in source back to all the copyright owners all the way to the source of origin if you use any content not designated as "Externally Usable Interface" on its content licensing notice; AND

SHALL bear FULL repsonsibilities for upstreaming sensitive and registered data like personal data, patent, industrial design, IC design, etc as this license will force them to open up and eventually nullify their exclusivities or confidentiality (site-note: without an IP lawyer, just don't include); AND

SHALL have all your changes and contents be forced to be re-licensed under this license (the copyleft effect) in a non-negociable way; AND



You're only allowed to remix/remaster as long as you:



SHALL AND STRICTLY REQUIRED to attribute all the copyright holders; AND

SHALL accept that the creators are not responsible for anything of any kind; AND

SHALL retain the same 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

SHALL upstream all your changes in source back to all the copyright owners all the way to the source of origin if you use any content not designated as "Externally Usable Interface" on its content licensing notice; AND

SHALL bear FULL repsonsibilities for upstreaming sensitive and registered data like personal data, patent, industrial design, IC design, etc as this license will force them to open up and eventually nullify their exclusivities or confidentiality (site-note: without an IP lawyer, just don't include); AND

SHALL have all your changes and contents be forced to be re-licensed under this license (the copyleft effect) in a non-negociable way; AND



You're only allowed to distribute as long as you:



SHALL AND STRICTLY REQUIRED to attribute all the copyright holders; AND

SHALL accept that the creators are not responsible for anything of any kind; AND

SHALL retain the same 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

SHALL upstream all your changes in source back to all the copyright owners all the way to the source of origin if you use any content not designated as "Externally Usable Interface" on its content licensing notice; AND

SHALL NOT need to upstream anything if you strictly and only use the designated "Externally Usable Interface" with the product; AND

SHALL bear FULL repsonsibilities for upstreaming sensitive and registered data like personal data, patent, industrial design, IC design, etc as this license will force them to open up and eventually nullify their exclusivities or confidentiality (site-note: without an IP lawyer, just don't include); AND

SHALL have all your changes and contents be forced to be re-licensed under this license (the copyleft effect) in a non-negociable way; AND



You're only allowed to re-distribute as long as you:



SHALL AND STRICTLY REQUIRED to attribute all the copyright holders; AND

SHALL accept that the creators are not responsible for anything of any kind; AND

SHALL retain the same 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

SHALL upstream all your changes in source back to all the copyright owners all the way to the source of origin if you use any content not designated as "Externally Usable Interface" on its content licensing notice; AND

SHALL NOT need to upstream anything if you strictly and only use the designated "Externally Usable Interface" with the product; AND

SHALL bear FULL repsonsibilities for upstreaming sensitive and registered data like personal data, patent, industrial design, IC design, etc as this license will force them to open up and eventually nullify their exclusivities or confidentiality (site-note: without an IP lawyer, just don't include); AND

SHALL have all your changes and contents be forced to be re-licensed under this license (the copyleft effect) in a non-negociable way; AND



You're only allowed to perform any miscellaneous rights not mentioned above as long as you:



SHALL AND STRICTLY REQUIRED to attribute all the copyright holders; AND

SHALL accept that the creators are not responsible for anything of any kind; AND

SHALL retain the same 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

SHALL upstream all your changes in source back to all the copyright owners all the way to the source of origin if you use any content not designated as "Externally Usable Interface" on its content licensing notice; AND

SHALL NOT need to upstream anything if you strictly and only use the designated "Externally Usable Interface" with the product; AND

SHALL bear FULL repsonsibilities for upstreaming sensitive and registered data like personal data, patent, industrial design, IC design, etc as this license will force them to open up and eventually nullify their exclusivities or confidentiality (site-note: without an IP lawyer, just don't include); AND

SHALL have all your changes and contents be forced to be re-licensed under this license (the copyleft effect) in a non-negociable way.
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