[License-discuss] For Approval: Public Software License

Nikolaos-Modestos Kougioulis nkougioulis at sdf.org
Sat Mar 1 15:16:26 UTC 2014


To whom it may concern,

I am writing you this e-mail to request approval for my License, 
regarding the Open Source definition.

1) The Cryptix General License is the most similar OSI-approved license. 
To my concern, that permissive, free software licence, does not make a 
clear definition of Limitation of Liability. The Public Software License 
is based on the Cryptix General License, with a clear disambiguation 
between the Disclaimer of Warranty and the Limitation of Liability. 
Moreover, at the end of the Public Software License, the agreement 
between the licensor and the end software user is stated clearly, aiming 
to emphasize the responsibilities of the user regarding the terms of the 
License.

2) I believe software released under the Public Software License will 
make the limitations and warranties of the license much more clear, yet 
under the Permissive free software license scope.

3)
Public Software License
Version 1.0, 27 December 2012

Copyright (c) 2012 Nikolaos-Modestos Kougioulis.
All rights Reserved.


Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person 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.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED ON AN ``AS IS`` BASIS, UNLESS REQUIRED BY
APPLICABLE LAW OR AGREED TO IN WRITING. THAT SHALL MEAN THAT THE 
LICENSED
WORK COMES WITH ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, 
EXPRESSED
OR IMPLIED, INCLUDED, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE WARRANTIES OF CONDITIONS 
OF
TITLE, NON-INFRIGEMENT, MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR 
PURPOSE.
YOU ASSUME THE RISKS ACCOMPANIED USING THE PROGRAM. IN NO EVENT SHALL 
THE
AUTHORS BE LIABLE TO YOU FOR ANY DEFECTIVE TYPE OF QUALITY AND 
PERFORMANCE
THAT MAY OCCUR DURING THE USE OF THE WORK.

IN NO EVENT, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION, NEGLIGENCE, UNLESS REQUIRED
BY APPLICABLE LAW SHALL THE AUTHOR OR ANY COPYRIGHT HOLDER(INCLUDING
CONTRIBUTORS) BE RESPONSIBLE TO YOU FOR DAMAGES, DATA LOSS, COMPUTER
MALFUNCTION OR ANY OTHER TYPE OF CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES OCCURRING FROM
THE MISUSE OF THE PROGRAM, EVEN IF SUCH PARTIES HAVE BEEN ADVISED OF
THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES.

You hereby acknowledge that you have fully read and understand the 
foregoing
License and agree that the use of the licensed work is an 
acknowledgement of
your agreement to the terms stated herein.



Regards,

Nikolaos-Modestos Kougioulis



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