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

description: IMPORTANT NOTICE

Starting from version v4.0.0, this license had converged to the (Holloway) Chew, Kean Ho's Research and Libre License.

To avoid duplication, please use any of the following licenses instead:



(Holloway) Chew, Kean Ho's Research and Libre License

Public Domain Mark

Creative Common 0 License


This repository is now archived for educational purposes only. PLEASE DO NOT USE IT. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED.




A published research and experimentation friendly open-source license originally for (Holloway) Chew, Kean Ho but is now open to all product licensing purposes. Initially, this license was design for public domain deployment but after multiple improvement iterations. However, under the author(s) strong opinions, the license had converged into (Holloway) Chew, Kean Ho's Research and Libre License. This is due to none of the author want to forgo some important clauses matching existing public domain licenses due to their important responsibilties. Hence, starting from version v4.0.0, this license shall be superseded by its convergence. To avoid misleading You, You are advised and shall to use any of the following licenses instead:



(Holloway) Chew, Kean Ho's Research and Libre License

Public Domain Mark

Creative Common 0 License


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, Public Domain Mark, Creative Common 0 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 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.


This repository was formally known as (Holloway) Chew, Kean Ho's BSD Zero Clause License but was renamed for consistency purposes.



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, 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.
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