(Holloway) Chew, Kean Ho's BSD 3 Clauses License
Creators: name: Chew, Kean Ho
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Product
License
BSD 3 Clauses
Adopt &amp; Modify

description: An experimentation and academic friendly open-source license for (Holloway) Chew, Kean Ho product licensing purposes. This version adopt the Open Source Initiative's BSD 3 Clauses License as its baseline and applies the following changes:



Changed Software to Product so that the license can be expanded to non-software product licensing usage (e.g. graphics, video, etc) without needing to spin multiple 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.




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 this README.md, and etc.




License Nature


To use this license for your product licensing, you MUST, in layman terms, do the following:



You're free to use for personal deployment at your own volition 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 uses listed above; AND

are NOT REQUIRED to expose and upstream your changes back to the copyright holders all the way back to us (copyleft effect); AND



You're free to use for commercial deployment at your own volition 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 uses listed above; AND

are NOT REQUIRED to expose and upstream your changes back to the copyright holders all the way back to us (copyleft effect); AND



You're free to edit/modify at your own volition 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 uses listed above; AND

are NOT REQUIRED to expose and upstream your changes back to the copyright holders all the way back to us (copyleft effect).



You're free to remix at your own volition 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 uses listed above; AND

are NOT REQUIRED to expose and upstream your changes back to the copyright holders all the way back to us (copyleft effect); AND



You're free to distribute the content at your own volition 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 uses listed above; AND

are NOT REQUIRED to expose and upstream your changes back to the copyright holders all the way back to us (copyleft effect); AND



You're free to re-distribute the content at your own volition 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 uses listed above; AND

are NOT REQUIRED to expose and upstream your changes back to the copyright holders all the way back to us (copyleft effect).
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