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

description: IMPORTANT NOTICE

This license was drafted by a software developer based on his past experiences across software, service, and agriculture industries.

Like all legal documents, YOU MUST ALWAYS ENGAGE A LAWYER TO VALIDATE ITS FEASIBILITY.

NEVER ASSUME WHEN DEALING WITH LEGAL TRANSACTIONS.


A published baseline liberal license targeting publicly obtainable, commercial, and proprietor source-liberty product licensing needs. This license adopted from Open Source Initiative's Apache 2.0 License software license and Creative Common Licenses product license as its baseline and applied the following changes matching the current timeline:



Changed Software to Product so that the license can be expanded to non-software product licensing uses (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 license termination section to specify when the license is matured; AND

Added version controlled clause for continuous improvement; AND

Added sensitive data management and security coverage; AND

Structured known Rights to Use sections for easier parsing and referencing (based on Creative Common Licenses); AND

Added non-contact Rights to Use clauses (example: as dataset for training AI); AND

Added force manjure limitation of liabilities; AND

Added minimal agreed judiciary damage; AND

Added geographical indicator coverage; AND

Added designation indicator coverage; AND

Added protected geographical indicator coverage; AND

Added protected designation indicator coverage; AND

Added integrated circuit layout design use coverage; AND

Added industrial design use coverage; AND

Added trade secret use coverage; AND

Added trademark use coverage; AND

Applied plainlanguage.gov specifications; AND

Re-written from scratch by human with the only input provision assistance from Claude AI; AND

Addressed the modified and derived Products' renaming grey area issue; AND

Added statutory time limit for any legal claim; AND

Added QR code notice type for space constrained product display.


This repository was formerly known as the following but was renamed for consistency purposes:



(Holloway) Chew, Kean Ho's Public Domain License

(Holloway) Chew, Kean Ho's BSD Zero Clause License




Business Reasons


This project was initiated for 4 reasons:



As of year 2024, there were too many license related incidents due its outdated nature leading to legal exploits; AND

Most non-commercial licenses are out-of-date and does not implement automatic update to the license clauses aside from point-releasing; AND

Most licenses are not clear about guidelines and a lot of the licenses are too vague in its obligation coverage; AND

There is a need for a far more liberal license meant for common critical products (example: software kernel libraries) that are compatible with other licenses similar to 0BSD and CC0.




Version Controlled


This license 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.


By default, the license is always using the latest and greatest. If you want a specific version, download that license file and include it into your product repository.



License Nature


To comply with PlainLanguage.gov, You have to read the license files directly. It must be easily readable for any general public audience without assistance.

If you cannot parse or understand any part of the license, that means the license has not fully achieve the guideline yet. In that case, please file a query issue.



Credits


These are the official stewards of the license:



(Holloway) Chew, Kean Ho - principal author and reviewer.


These are the folks who indirectly improve this license upto a considerable quality either by resources sharing or scanning:



Bruce Payne - for relentlessly providing license drafting guidances and emotional positivity.

Anthropic's Claude AI - for providing a lot of great inputs for me to fine-tune clauses and clues for hunting for actual legal resources.

Chua, Yee Soong - for guiding over Malaysia's legal acumen and resources.
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Licensed under (Holloway) Chew, Kean Ho’s Liberal License (the "License").You must comply with the license to use the content. Get the License at:

                 https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13770769

You MUST ensure any interaction with the content STRICTLY COMPLIES withthe permissions and limitations set forth in the license.