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| author |   Stefan Jones <cretin@gentoo.org> | 2002-12-27 17:22:13 +0000 |
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The 4F License
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diff --git a/licenses/4F b/licenses/4F new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..eeec0be57f90 --- /dev/null +++ b/licenses/4F @@ -0,0 +1,166 @@ +<HTML> +<HEAD> +<TITLE>4F LICENSING</TITLE> +<STYLE> +DT { font-weight: bold; } +</STYLE> +</HEAD> +<BODY> +<H1>4F LICENSE AGREEMENT</H1> + +<B>Revision:</B> 2 November 2, 2002 +<P> +This license is (C) Copyright 2002 Lameter Corporation, +7131 Cabernet Ave, Newark, CA 94560, United States of America, http://lameter.com christoph@u-OS.org +</P> +<P> +Distribution of exact copies of this license agreement is allowed and must +be redistributed with all modifications and enhancements to this product. +</P> +<P> +The text of section 1 might be changed if this license agreement is +to be applied by a copyright holder for another software product. +</P> +<P> +<B>THIS SOFTWARE MIGHT BE OBTAINED UNDER DIFFERENT LICENSING AGREEMENTS.</B><BR> +Please contact the license holder(s) for details. +</P> +<P>Note that this license is in its early stages of formulation. It will most likely be refined in the next weeks. +Ultimately a non-profit should be the license holder and not a commercial entity. It might take awhile until +the necessary organization and funds are available to start such a non-profit organization. +Comments are appreciated. Please respond to christoph@u-OS.org.</P> + +<H1>SECTION ONE: The software under the 4F License</H1> +<DL> +<DT>Name of the Software Product<DD>uPM - Micro Package Manager +<DT>Short Description<DD>uPM is a package management system with source build and archive maintenance capability +<DT>License Holder<DD>Lameter International Corporation, 7131 Cabernet Ave, Newark, CA 94560, http://lameter.com info@lameter.com +<DT>Distribution License<DD>4F Class D +</DL> +<H1>SECTION TWO: The 4F License</H1> +<P>The aim of this license is not to restrict your rights. <i>4F Licensing</i> was developed to preserve the four freedoms when using a software product: +</P> +<OL> +<LI>The freedom to obtain and review the source code for the software product. The <i>4F license</i> requires that the source be made +available for software products distributed under 4F licenses. +<LI>The freedom to redistribute the source code and the binary. The <i>4F license</i> gives anyone the right to redistribute +the source as well as the binaries. +<LI>The freedom to modify the source code and redistribute the modifications. +<LI>The freedom to use software for any purpose by any person. +</OL> +<P><i>4F Licensing</i> protects your and other persons rights to make use of these freedoms. +Redistribution is only allowed if the person you are distributing to will also have the Four Freedoms. +A 4F License becomes invalid if those rights are not given. And this license is the only legal justification for the +use, modification and deployment of this software. +</P> +<P>We have chosen not to use the typical terms <b>Free Software</b> or <b>Open Source Software</b> +because both terms have led to a wrong understanding of this type of licensing in the past. +The concern of free or open source licensing is <b>not</b> to get the software for free +(meaning one does not have to pay any money for it) but to preserve the Four Freedoms. +The term <b>Free Software</b> typically leads to that misunderstanding. +The term <b>Open Source</b> often seems to avoid mentioning the Four Freedoms that need to be preserved. +It also gives rise to the misunderstanding that the access and ability to view the source code is sufficient. +<P> +We have chosen the term 4F (long <i>Four Freedoms</i>) because it does not have the baggage of the other terms +and clearly expresses the purpose of <i>Free</i> or <i>Open Source</i> Licenses. +<P> +<i>4F Licensing</i> allows different grades +of protection of these rights. If a <i>4F licensed</i> product is combined with other products the four freedoms might no +longer be applicable to the whole. <i>4F licensing</i> defines CLASSES of protection. A later class requires that the requirements of all earlier classes be fulfilled too. The following classes exist: +<TABLE BORDER=1> +<TR><TH>Class</TH><TH>Description</TH></TR> +<TR><TD>A</TD><TD><B>No protection</B>. +The sourcecode might be modified and redistributed under other licenses at will. +4F Class A licenses are similar to BSD licensed code. +The only provision is that credit is given to the authors of the code in the final product.</TD></TR> +<TR><TD>B</TD><TD><B>Protection for the software product itself</B>. +The Four Freedoms must be preserved for all modifications of the source code that are distributed. +The product might be combined (f.e. linked into) other software that is licensed differently. +The combination of other software plus the software product might not preserve the Four Freedoms. +Class B licensing is similar to the protection offered by the LGPL. +</TD></TR> +<TR><TD>C</TD><TD><B>Program (Executable) protection</B>. +The Four Freedoms must be preserved for all binaries generated. +If a piece of software is used for the generation of a binary +then all sourcecode that was used to generate the binary and all shared +objects loaded must also be made available under the Four Freedoms. +If this is not possible then the combination or the production +of the binary is not permitted under this license. +</TD></TR> +<TR><TD>D</TD><TD><B>Media / Site protection.</B>. +The software might not be distributed on media combined with software not preserving +the four freedoms. This means that publication on a CD that contains non 4F compliant software is not +permitted. The medium and all content must be sharable under the Four Freedoms principle. +The same is true for publication of ftp sites. +Publication on ftp sites that also distribute non 4F compliant software is not permitted. +CDs and ftp site contents must be freely redistributable and modifiable in order to satisfy Class D. +</TD></TR> +<TR><TD>E</TD><TD><B>System protection.</B>. +The Four Freedoms must be preserved for all software installed under the same Operating System and all software +used to install the system and any software on it. +The license becomes invalid if software is present under the installation +with the same operating system that contain software not conformant to 4F licensing. +Specifically this prohibits installation of proprietary software (such as Microsoft Software) under the same installed +operating system as a Class E product. +</TD></TR> +<TR><TD>F</TD><TD><B>Organizational protection</B>. The software might not be used by an organization/group/corporation that +is combining the use of the software so licensed with software that does not provide the Four Freedoms. +</TD></TR> +<TR><TD>G</TD><TD><B>Protection for program interaction</B>. The software must be deployed in such a way that it does not interact (transfer data to/from, use documents formatted by) non 4F compliant software.</TD></TR> +</TABLE> +<P> +4F licensing aims to be conforming to the DFSG (Debian Free Software Guidelines http://www.debian.org), the OSI criteria +for free software licenses (Open Source Initiative see http://www.opensource.org) and the free software criteria of the +Free Software Foundation (The GNU project see http://www.gnu.org). +Only Classes A-C are compliant with the criteria of the those organizations since protection against loss of the Four Freedoms by aggregation is only permitted for binaries. +</P> +<H1>SECTION THREE: Warranty</H1> +<P> +The software is provided and licensed free of charge therefore there is no +warranty for the software to the extent permitted by applicable law. +</P><P> +This license is void in legal context where a law makes the copyright holder +or any contributor provide a warranty for this software that was provided free of charge. +</P><P> +There is no warranty unless otherwise stated in writing by the copyright holders. +The software is provides "as-is" without warranty of any kind, either expressed +or implied, including, but not limited to, the implied warranties of merchantability +and fitness for a particular purpose. The entire risk of using this software +is with the user of this program. Should this software fail then the user will +assume the cost of all necessary services, repairs, corrections or whatever +else is necessary to remedy the situation. +</P> +<H1>SECTION FOUR: Liability</H1> +<P> +In no event unless required by applicable law or agree to in writing will any +copyright holder, or any other party who may have modified and/or redistributed +the software under the regulations of this license be liable to you for damages +including any general, special, incidental or consequential damages arising out +of the use or inability to use the software (including but not limited to loss +of data or data being rendered inaccurate or losses sustained by the user or +third parties or a failure of the software to operate with any other software), even +if such holder or other party has been advised of the possibility of such damages. +</P><P> +This license is void if the above limitations are rendered ineffective by law or +judicial decision. +</P> +<H1>SECTION FIVE: Definition of Terms</H1> +<P> +<DL> +<DT>4F Conformant License<DD> +A conformant license is a license that is conformant to the Free Software/Open Source principles. +OSI accredited licenses (see http://www.opensource.org) are +4F conformant. So is any license that allows the exercise +of the Four Freedoms. Examples of conformant licenses are: +<UL> +<LI>4F Licenses +<LI>GPL (is a 4F Class C compliant license) +<LI>LGPL (is a 4F Class B compliant license) +<LI>BSD (is a 4F Class A compliant license) +<LI>Public Domain (is 4F Class A compliant) +</UL> +</DL> +<P> +</BODY> +</HTML> + |