From 9542b75a6b4e37c8d6c943dc165cff2b9abbbe11 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Imre Kristoffer Eilertsen Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2019 22:19:44 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Upgraded to Dandelicence V1.1 --- LICENSE.md | 18 +++++++++++------- 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) diff --git a/LICENSE.md b/LICENSE.md index 80e8ea0c7..7686fa4d1 100644 --- a/LICENSE.md +++ b/LICENSE.md @@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ ### Dandelicence's homepage: https://github.com/DandelionSprout/Dandelicence -### Version 1, 10th of July 2019 UTC +### Version 1.1, 3rd of September 2019 UTC Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, with or without commercial intentions, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met: @@ -14,13 +14,15 @@ Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, 3) Neither the name of the copyright holder nor the names of its contributors may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software without specific prior written permission. -4) If a project that is licenced under the Dandelicence (A), incorporates verbatim or near-verbatim content from another project that is licenced under any reasonably open-sourced licence (B), then it is mandatory for the maintainer(s) of A to adhere to creator/licence creditation requests and/or requests to remove the incorporated content, from the owner(s) or substantial contributor(s) of B, as long as it can be reasonably assumed that the requestor really does own or contribute to B. In return, the requestor is expected to assume for at least 14 days after the request has been placed that the maintainer(s) of A will act in good faith, will include the creditation or perform the removal within that timespan, and that reports and DMCA takedowns are to be kept at an absolute minimum for as long as A acts in good faith. +4) If a project that is licenced under the Dandelicence (A), incorporates unmodified or near-unmodified content from another project that is licenced under any reasonably open-sourced licence (B), then it is mandatory for the maintainer(s) of A to adhere to creator/licence creditation requests and/or requests to remove the incorporated content, from the owner(s) or substantial contributor(s) of B, as long as it can be reasonably assumed that the requestor really does own or contribute to B. In return, the requestor is expected to assume for at least 14 days after the request has been placed that the maintainer(s) of A will act in good faith, will include the creditation or perform the removal within that timespan, and that reports and DMCA takedowns are to be kept at an absolute minimum for as long as A acts in good faith. -* * 4a. To make it easier for the creator of A to demonstrate their good faith, creditation for incorporated content should be added as fast as humanly possible without the need for a request from B, if B's content was licenced under either GPLv3, GPLv2, MPLv2, CC BY, CC BY-NC, CC BY-SA, CC BY-NC-SA, another licence that is strict on creditation, or was from a project that appears to not mention any licences or copyright policies of any sort. Content that is taken from such projects and credited, unless they have been changed enough to count as transformative work, is to be treated as still being licenced under B's licence. +* * 4a. To make it easier for the creator of A to demonstrate their good faith, creditation for incorporated content should be added as fast as humanly possible without the need for a request from B, if B's content was licenced under either GPLv3, GPLv2, MPLv2, CC BY, CC BY-NC, CC BY-SA, CC BY-NC-SA, another licence that is strict on creditation, or was from a project that appears to not mention any licences or copyright policies of any sort. -* * 4b. If it's feasibly possible, the incorporated content from B is to be placed in its own paragraph, and the following template or something similar should be used: *"Below are \ that [I/we] borrowed from \, which is maintained by \ at \, and which is licenced under \."* +* * 4b. If the content was taken from a project that used a licence with a share-alike clause, incl. (but not limited to) GPLv3, GPLv2, CC BY-SA, CC BY-NC-SA, Eclipse, and EUPL, and which has not been sufficiently transformed to count as transformative work, will be treated as still being licenced under B's licence. Otherwise, it will be treated as being under the Dandelicence. -* * 4c. Content that was originally incorporated, but which has since been significantly transformed, are exempted from 4a and 4b, but not from 4. +* * 4c. If it's feasibly possible, the incorporated content from B is to be placed in its own paragraph, and the following template or something similar should be used: *"Below are \ that [I/we] borrowed from \, which is maintained by \ at \, and which is licenced under \."* + +* * 4d. Content that was originally incorporated, but which has since been significantly transformed, are exempted from 4a, 4b, and 4c, but not from 4. 5) Should there be incompatible disprecancies between different translations of this licence, then the British English version takes precedence. @@ -30,6 +32,8 @@ Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, 8) It is merely optional for the Dandelicence-using project to list copyright details (e.g. name, year) in the licence file. However, it should be made clear in some or another way who the creator of the source code was, for example (but not limited to) through the project's homepage or FAQ page, even if it's just a fictional username. Should you wish to include the copyright details, they are written on the line beneath the version number/date line. It is preferable to use the Unicode character © instead of (C). -9) This licence was partially written as a contrast to those licences that shout at the top of lungs in all-caps about non-liability. It is therefore considered bad sport (although non-enforceably so) to change any section of this licence into all-caps. +9) This licence was partially written as a contrast to those licences that yell at the top of lungs in all-caps about non-liability. It is therefore considered bad sport (although non-enforceably so) to change any section of this licence into all-caps. -10) The source code that is covered by the licence, and any redistributions of unmodified or near-unmodified source code, shall be accessible in some or another capacity at whichever access price in at least 100 countries worldwide. This is to try to prevent it from e.g. being solely accessible from United States-only streaming services or similarly restricted services. VPN access does not count towards the tally. A "country" is defined as a member state of the United Nations, or alternately the Republic of China, the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic's Free Zone, Vatican State, Kosovo, or Northern Cyprus. Should the work not be available in a sufficient amount of countries, any living person may request to the project's maintainer that it be made available in at least 10 more countries within 14 days. 14-day periods may be stacked through successive requests placed 14 or more days after the previous request, until 100 countries have been reached. +10) The source code that is covered by the licence, and any redistributions of unmodified or near-unmodified source code, shall be accessible in some or another capacity at whichever access price in at least 100 countries worldwide. This is to try to prevent it from e.g. being solely accessible from United States-only streaming services or similarly restricted services. VPN access does not count towards the tally. A "country" is defined as a member state of the United Nations, or alternately the Republic of China, the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic's Free Zone, Vatican State, Kosovo, or Northern Cyprus. Should the work not be available in a sufficient amount of countries, any living person may request to the project's maintainer that it be made available in at least 10 more countries within 14 days. 14-day periods may be stacked through successive requests placed 14 or more days after the previous request was placed, until 100 countries have been reached. + +11) Except where local laws and/or B's licences from 4b explicitly state otherwise, redistributions or borrowed content counts as «unmodified» if it has received 0 changes, «transformative work»/«substantially modified» if more than 20% of the lines or 20% of the sentences (whichever is more) have been altered from their original borrowing, and «near-unmodified» if it is somewhere between those two categories. For the purposes of section 4, if the project believes that the content has become transformative, A can optionally add a note about it in the 4c template for as long as B does not contest the claim.