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swift2plunder / trebuchet

Administrative toolkit for the fediverse
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Create a copyleftist license #4

Open swift2plunder opened 5 years ago

swift2plunder commented 5 years ago

Create a license form that allows use only for individuals and certain cooperative organizations who are committed to the abolition of intellectual property law and all other private property

swift2plunder commented 5 years ago

First draft:

Copyright (c)

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any comrade obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

Except as contained in this notice, the name(s) of the above copyright holders shall not be used in advertising or otherwise to promote the sale, use or other dealings in this Software without prior written authorization.

A comrade is defined as any individual, coop, or collective committed to the abolition of private property including capital markets and intellectual property. By exercising the permissions extended to comrades described by this document, you declare solidarity with the author(s), acknowledge their moral rights to this work as fellow laborers, and agree to honor the declared intent of this document, which is a world where the following declaration is no longer necessary:

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.

swift2plunder commented 5 years ago

In the event that a person or entity exercising permissions of this license shall cease to be a comrade, whether by voluntarily ending identification as a comrade or by committing acts that identify them as capitalist, this grant of license shall be terminated for that party and all sublicenses cancelled. Acts that identify capitalists include, but are not limited to (make a list)