Simple Public License, draft

[John Cowan]

Justin Wells scripsit:

>   Our software is our property, and it is copyrighted and licensed,
>   not sold. You have no rights to our software, except for those
>   provided by this license. If you breach the terms of this license,
>   and fail to cure the breach within thirty (30) days of becoming
>   aware of it, then you must cease all use of our software, as your
>   rights to use it are then terminated.
> 
>   You are not required to accept this license, since you have not
>   signed it. However, nothing else permits you to use our software.

Any license with this provision in it just can't be Open Source.
In particular, the "basic rights" enumerated below exclude the
right of sale guaranteed by the OSD.
See http://www.opensource.org/osd.html#clause1 .

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John Cowan                                   cowan at ccil.org
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