New license: Integrity Open Source License

[Forrest J. Cavalier III]

Of the popular OSD compliant licenses, I like the MIT style
license, but I wanted something that goes a little bit further
in protecting the author's name and integrity of original
source.  (OSD #4 at http://opensource.org/osd.html)

The OSD states that the license can restrict the distribution of
modified works to be "patch files" but I have become convinced
by discussions in the community that this is unworkable.

So changing as little as possible, from the MIT license, I
have the following.
     
As a small developer/consultant, name and trademark
recognition is very important, of course.  That really ends
up being the value I sell.  

The intent of the license is to allow distribution of unmodified
software far and wide, but requires that modified versions be
advertised and distributed using different names.

If someone knows of a MIT-style license with a similar
condition that already exists, please reply.  I could not
locate anything similar, and resorted to yet another open
source license.

With discussion and approval here, (and a better license name,)
my hope is that many other developers will use the license
when they wish to release open source software under a license
that better protects name recognition.



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