For Approval: Public Security Interrest "PSI" License

[Wolfram Kleff]

Hello license-discuss at opensource.org,

please let me know if the Public Security Interrest "PSI" license meets your 
criteria of "Open Source".
This license is intendet for high security open source software. 
I don't see a conflict with the "Open Soure definition" Version 1.9 from
http://opensource.org/docs/definition.php.

The license in detail:

	(Software in the) Public Security Interrest "PSI" License
		       Version 1, 2001

 Copyright (C) 2001 Wolfram Kleff
 Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies
 of this license document, but changing it is not allowed.


The Public Security Interest License (PSI-License) is 
very similar to other Open Source Licenses
(especially the GNU General Public License "GPL") but focuses
on security aspects. So you can see the PSI-License like an addition to
the GPLicense since security aspects are not covered by the GPL:
"Activities other than copying, distribution and modification are not
covered by this License; they are outside its scope." - GPL.
The PSI-License adds the following security rights/restrictions:


   TERMS AND CONDITIONS

S1. You may not violate the security of this software, its ideas,
    its protocols or structures.

S2. You must grand all privacy, data protections or other security benefits
    you gain from this software to all other people.
    If you want to use this software you might not restrict anybody else's 
use.
    "Security for everyone"

S3. You may not force other people to compromise the security for them self
    or other people involved.

S4. You may only use this software in a secure processing environment
    (software + hardware).
    Since there is usually no absolute "secure processing environment"
    it depends on your best knowledge to be secure.
    However the processing environment must be verifiable by you or by the
    public.
    So source code or construction principles of the processing environment
    must be known.
    This software might not be made depend on software which violates the
    security or other terms of this License
    (e.g. Software without available source code or proprietary software).
    This includes among other things the process of "making" (compiling, ...)
    or "running" (Operating System, Library, ...).

S5. You should feel encouraged to publish all security relevant errors.
    The preferred action is to notify to author/maintainer of the software
    first, so bugs could be fixed before they get exploited.
    The software or the processing environment may not be covered by any
    "non disclosure" restrictions.

S6. This software has been done with the best intentions, however you should
    not abuse its features. You might not intentionally harm other people
    with this software.

S7. This license is additionally protected by the PSI-License itself -
    modification is only allowed by the author.
    If any juristic attack is found against the spirit or the intention of
    this license, it will be changed accordingly.


The remaining Terms and Conditions are taken and adapted/modified from the GPL
to meet the above criteria:

  G0. This License applies to any program or other work which contains
a notice placed by the copyright holder saying it is licensed
under the terms of this Public Security Interest (PSI) License.
The "Program" (software), below, refers to any such program or work,
and a "work based on the Program" means either the Program or any
derivative work under copyright law:
that is to say, a work containing the Program or a portion of it,
either verbatim or with modifications and/or translated into another
language.  (Hereinafter, translation is included without limitation in
the term "modification".)  Each licensee is addressed as "you".

  G1. You may copy and distribute verbatim copies of the Program's
source code as you receive it, in any medium, provided that you
conspicuously and appropriately publish on each copy an appropriate
copyright notice and disclaimer of warranty; keep intact all the
notices that refer to this License and to the absence of any warranty;
and give any other recipients of the Program a copy of this License
along with the Program.

You may charge a fee for the physical act of transferring a copy, and
you may at your option offer warranty protection in exchange for a fee.

  G2. You may modify your private copy or copies of the Program or any portion
of it for your own personal use if you don't violate the above security
restrictions, thus forming a work based on the Program, but may _not_ copy or
distribute such modifications or work.
But you may distribute or copy difference files (known as e.g. "diff-file"
or "patch-file") under the terms of this License, provided that you also
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    a) You must cause the modified files to carry prominent notices
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    A brief change summary would be nice.

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