(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
Commercial Open Source License
Adopt &amp; Modify
Apache 2.0 License

description:  

A published commerical friendly open-source license for (Holloway) Chew, Kean Ho product licensing purposes. This version adopted the Open Source Initiative's Apache 2.0 License 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, etc) without needing to spin multiple licenses.

Added license assignment, ratification, and tenure section to specify when and how is the license applied.

Added version controlled clauses for which version shall be in effect by default.




IMPORTANT NOTICE

This repository is archived does not means it's unmaintained but rather locking its version development.


 

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.

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, do the following:



Attribution to the copyright holders is required.

The copyright holders are not responsible for anything of any kind.

You're free to use for personal deployment at your own volition as long as you:



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

you're NOT ALLOWED to use the creators' name, brand, and trademark without their written notices for any uses listed above; AND

if you institute patent litigation against any entity, any patent licenses granted to You under this Covenant for that Product shall terminated as of the date such litigation is filed.



You're free to use for commercial deployment at your own volition as long as you:



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

you're NOT ALLOWED to use the creators' name, brand, and trademark without their written notices for any uses listed above; AND

if you institute patent litigation against any entity, any patent licenses granted to You under this Covenant for that Product shall terminated as of the date such litigation is filed.



You're free to edit/modify at your own volition as long as you:



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

you're NOT ALLOWED to use the creators' name, brand, and trademark without their written notices for any uses listed above; AND

if you institute patent litigation against any entity, any patent licenses granted to You under this Covenant for that Product shall terminated as of the date such litigation is filed.



You're free to remix at your own volition as long as you:



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

you're NOT ALLOWED to use the creators' name, brand, and trademark without their written notices for any uses listed above; AND

if you institute patent litigation against any entity, any patent licenses granted to You under this Covenant for that Product shall terminated as of the date such litigation is filed.



You're free to distribute the content at your own volition as long as you:



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

you're NOT ALLOWED to use the creators' name, brand, and trademark without their written notices for any uses listed above; AND

if you institute patent litigation against any entity, any patent licenses granted to You under this Covenant for that Product shall terminated as of the date such litigation is filed.



You're free to re-distribute the content at your own volition as long as you:



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

you're NOT ALLOWED to use the creators' name, brand, and trademark without their written notices for any uses listed above; AND

if you institute patent litigation against any entity, any patent licenses granted to You under this Covenant for that Product shall terminated as of the date such litigation is filed.



You're NOT REQUIRED to expose and upstream your changes back to the copyright holders (Copyleft effect).
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