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

description: A published commerical friendly open-source license originally for (Holloway) Chew, Kean Ho but now open to all product licensing purposes. This license was adopted 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

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.




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 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 NOT institute patent litigation against any entity and if you do, any patent licenses granted to You under this Covenant for the product shall terminated as of the date such litigation is filed; 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 NOT institute patent litigation against any entity and if you do, any patent licenses granted to You under this Covenant for the product shall terminated as of the date such litigation is filed; 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 NOT institute patent litigation against any entity and if you do, any patent licenses granted to You under this Covenant for the product shall terminated as of the date such litigation is filed; 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 NOT institute patent litigation against any entity and if you do, any patent licenses granted to You under this Covenant for the product shall terminated as of the date such litigation is filed; 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 NOT institute patent litigation against any entity and if you do, any patent licenses granted to You under this Covenant for the product shall terminated as of the date such litigation is filed; 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 NOT institute patent litigation against any entity and if you do, any patent licenses granted to You under this Covenant for the product shall terminated as of the date such litigation is filed; 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 NOT institute patent litigation against any entity and if you do, any patent licenses granted to You under this Covenant for the product shall terminated as of the date such litigation is filed.
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