[License-discuss] For Public Comment: The Contribution Public License

[Moritz Maxeiner]

I've incorporated several new suggestions and attached the new draft as 
plaintext.

- More verbose initial paragraph that's explicit about both copyright and 
patent license grants
- copyright notice -> contributor notice
- "use or distribute this software with it" in clause 2 -> "use the hereby 
granted rights"
- more explicit/verbose clause 3
- rewording of the long form copyright/patent paragraphs at the end (before 
the warranty paragraph)

Also, due to a name clash on CPL I somehow missed once the license I'll rename 
it soonish (once I can think of a new name).

Any additional feedback would be welcome.

Thank you for your time.

On Saturday, 3 August 2019 23:48:38 CEST Moritz Maxeiner wrote:
> Hello,
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The Contribution Public License 1.0 (Draft)
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  *Contributor Notice:* `Licensor Name'

  *Source Notice:* `Primary location of source code'

  You may do everything with this software that would otherwise infringe
  either any contributors' copyright in it, any patent claim any
  contributor can license that covers this software as of that
  contributor's latest contribution, or both, in exchange for your
  promise to fulfill all of the following obligations:

  1. Ensure everyone who receives a copy of this software from you, in
     any form, also receives the text of this license and the
     contributor and source notices above.

  2. License each change you make to this software under this license,
     publish it in its original form through a freely accessible
     distribution system commonly used for similar changes, and ensure
     reasonable availability of it via one such publication for as long
     as you use the hereby granted rights, but no less than 30 days.

  3. Do not make any legal claim against anyone for infringing any
     patent claim they would infringe by using this software alone,
     accusing this software, with or without changes, alone or as part
     of a larger application.

        You are granted a perpetual, universal, non-exclusive,
        no-charge, royalty-free, irrevocable (except in the case
        of breaching the above obligations) copyright license
        without scope limitations.

        You are granted a perpetual, universal, non-exclusive,
        no-charge, royalty-free, irrevocable (except in the case
        of breaching the above obligations) patent license for all
        patent claims covering contributions as embodied in this
        software and licensable by respective contributors without
        other scope limitations.

        There is no warranty for this software, to the extent
        permitted by applicable law. Except when otherwise stated
        in writing the copyright holders and/or other parties
        provide this software "as is" without warranty of any
        kind, either expressed or implied, including, but not
        limited to, the implied warranties of merchantability and
        fitness for a particular purpose. The entire risk as to
        the quality and performance of this sofware is with
        you. Should this software prove defective, you assume the
        cost of all necessary servicing, repair or correction.

        In no event, unless required by applicable law or agreed
        to in writing, will any copyright holder, or any other
        party who makes changes to and/or distributes this
        software as permitted above, be liable to you for damages,
        including any general, special, incidental, or
        consequential damages arising out of the use or inability
        to use this software (including but not limited to loss of
        data or data being rendered inaccurate or losses sustained
        by you or third parties or a failure of this software to
        operate with any other software, hardware, or wetware),
        even if such holder or other party has been advised of the
        possibility of such damages.

        Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim
        copies of this license.