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

description: An "open or die" general public friendly with copyleft effect open-source license for (Holloway) Chew, Kean Ho product licensing purposes. This license is referenced from FSF's GPLv2 License and FSF's GPLv3 License but was written based on Open Source Initiative's Apache 2.0 License as its baseline to produce a more reader friendly license file. Among the notable alteration are:



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; 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

No inclusion of software lockdown prohibition (known as "tivoization") clauses where the prohibition itself is perceived as an restrictive right to use and there are valid use cases such as secure initialization/booting using cryptographic digital signature verification; AND

No inclusion of patent for GPLv2 compatibility but explictly stated that the license overrules any patent, trade secret, or any secrecy's terms and conditions when they are contributed into the Product which nullify their exclusivities. The Contributor that does this knowingly or unknowingly shall bear full responsibility including legal actions from the stakeholders.




WARNING: When in doubts OR without absolute certainty, stay clear of this license.




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, 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 endorsement of your derrivatives or uses; AND

SHALL AND ARE REQUIRED to expose and upstream all your changes in source form back to all the copyright holders all the way back to the point of origin (copyleft effect) if you use the product via any its undesignated interface, or creating/adding, editing/modifying, remix/remaster, delete/clean up, or by any other means to part/all of it; AND

SHALL bear FULL RESPONSIBILITIES on your own if you contribute unwarranted data disclosure knowingly or unknowingly into the product such as but not limited to patented technologies, trade secrets and etc as this license overules any terms of conditions from them which exposes its limitations and exclusiveness to the general public rendering them void; AND

SHALL license and re-license all your derivatives and contributions under this license (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 endorsement of your derrivatives or uses; AND

SHALL AND ARE REQUIRED to expose and upstream all your changes in source form back to all the copyright holders all the way back to the point of origin (copyleft effect) if you use the product via any its undesignated interface, or creating/adding, editing/modifying, remix/remaster, delete/clean up, or by any other means to part/all of it; AND

SHALL bear FULL RESPONSIBILITIES on your own if you contribute unwarranted data disclosure knowingly or unknowingly into the product such as but not limited to patented technologies, trade secrets and etc as this license overules any terms of conditions from them which exposes its limitations and exclusiveness to the general public rendering them void; AND

SHALL license and re-license all your derivatives and contributions under this license (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 endorsement of your derrivatives or uses; AND

SHALL AND ARE REQUIRED to expose and upstream all your changes in source form back to all the copyright holders all the way back to the point of origin (copyleft effect) if you use the product via any its undesignated interface, or creating/adding, editing/modifying, remix/remaster, delete/clean up, or by any other means to part/all of it; AND

SHALL bear FULL RESPONSIBILITIES on your own if you contribute unwarranted data disclosure knowingly or unknowingly into the product such as but not limited to patented technologies, trade secrets and etc as this license overules any terms of conditions from them which exposes its limitations and exclusiveness to the general public rendering them void; AND

SHALL license and re-license all your derivatives and contributions under this license (copyleft effect); AND



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 endorsement of your derrivatives or uses; AND

SHALL AND ARE REQUIRED to expose and upstream all your changes in source form back to all the copyright holders all the way back to the point of origin (copyleft effect) if you use the product via any its undesignated interface, or creating/adding, editing/modifying, remix/remaster, delete/clean up, or by any other means to part/all of it; AND

SHALL bear FULL RESPONSIBILITIES on your own if you contribute unwarranted data disclosure knowingly or unknowingly into the product such as but not limited to patented technologies, trade secrets and etc as this license overules any terms of conditions from them which exposes its limitations and exclusiveness to the general public rendering them void; AND

SHALL license and re-license all your derivatives and contributions under this license (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 endorsement of your derrivatives or uses; AND

SHALL AND ARE REQUIRED to expose and upstream all your changes in source form back to all the copyright holders all the way back to the point of origin (copyleft effect) if you use the product via any its undesignated interface, or creating/adding, editing/modifying, remix/remaster, delete/clean up, or by any other means to part/all of it; AND

SHALL bear FULL RESPONSIBILITIES on your own if you contribute unwarranted data disclosure knowingly or unknowingly into the product such as but not limited to patented technologies, trade secrets and etc as this license overules any terms of conditions from them which exposes its limitations and exclusiveness to the general public rendering them void; AND

SHALL license and re-license all your derivatives and contributions under this license (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 endorsement of your derrivatives or uses; AND

SHALL AND ARE REQUIRED to expose and upstream all your changes in source form back to all the copyright holders all the way back to the point of origin (copyleft effect) if you use the product via any its undesignated interface, or creating/adding, editing/modifying, remix/remaster, delete/clean up, or by any other means to part/all of it; AND

SHALL bear FULL RESPONSIBILITIES on your own if you contribute unwarranted data disclosure knowingly or unknowingly into the product such as but not limited to patented technologies, trade secrets and etc as this license overules any terms of conditions from them which exposes its limitations and exclusiveness to the general public rendering them void; AND

SHALL license and re-license all your derivatives and contributions under this license (copyleft effect).
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