[License-discuss] Linkumori Free License, Version 1.0 – Submission for OSI Review

[subham mahesh]

Subject: Linkumori Free License v1.0 — Updated Draft (Secondary License
Clause Added)

Hi

Attached is the latest draft of the Linkumori Free License, Version 1.0, in
both HTML and plain text.

A few notes on what's changed from the earlier draft:

1. Moral Rights (Section 9). Going through the previous draft, I flagged
the moral rights language as needing tighter drafting. Wanted to call this
out specifically so it gets a closer look before we treat this version as
final.

2. Secondary License clause (Section 11(b)). Section 4 requires a visible
attribution notice for the Work when it's redistributed via a website (a
footer/credits notice plus a stable URL hosting the full license text).
That requirement doesn't sit well with GNU/FSF-style copyleft licenses
(GPL, LGPL, AGPL) — their terms aren't built to accommodate an added
attribution condition like that, which made combining the Work with
GPL-licensed code legally awkward. To resolve this, I added a Secondary
License mechanism modeled on the MPL's approach: when the Work is combined
with a GPL/LGPL/AGPL-licensed work into a Larger Work, the distributor may
additionally offer the Work under that Secondary License. This gives
downstream recipients the choice of complying with our license or the
Secondary License, which clears the compatibility problem without watering
down Section 4 for everyone else.

3. Warranty, Liability, and Governing Law restructured (Sections 12–15).
The disclaimer and limitation of liability were previously combined in a
single section; they're now split, following the Apache License 2.0
structure, into Section 12 (Disclaimer of Warranty), Section 13 (Limitation
of Liability), and Section 14 (Accepting Warranty or Additional Liability,
covering a distributor who chooses to offer support or indemnity on their
own behalf). The Governing Law and Venue clause is now Section 15.

4. Section 3 (Redistributions in Source Code Form). Added an explicit
requirement that You must give any other recipients of the Work or
Derivative Works a copy of this License.

Let me know your thoughts, especially on the moral rights section, before
we lock this version in.

Sincerely,
Subham Mahesh
Law Student, CPJ College of Higher Studies & School of Law
Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University, Narela, Delhi
BA Social Science, Ambedkar University Delhi

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On Mon, 22 Jun 2026 at 22:52, Richard Fontana <fontana at sharpeleven.org>
wrote:

> On Mon, Jun 22, 2026 at 12:35 AM Pamela Chestek <pamela at chesteklegal.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > You've changed some of the original Apache words to words that, in my
> opinion, are worse. What is the reason for changing "copyright owner" to
> "copyright holder"? I don't know what a "holder" is but I do know what an
> "owner" is. Is a non-exclusive licensee a "holder"? And you haven't changed
> it consistently throughout, which means you're creating an argument that
> there is some difference between a "copyright holder" and a "copyright
> owner."
>
> This may now be moot (in the American English sense) because the
> submitter has apparently revised the license to consistently use
> "copyright owner", but it seems "copyright holder" is a fairly widely
> used alternative to "copyright owner" (the terms seem to be synonymous
> when looking at evidence of existing use) including in some
> governmental materials. In FOSS rhetoric/documents, it has been my
> casual observation that "copyright holder" seems to be preferred over
> "copyright owner", I think perhaps due to the influence of Richard
> Stallman and the Free Software Foundation (where, I'd hypothesize, the
> preference in FOSS, if there is one, originally arose). As to *why*
> that preference exists in FOSS, or at least in the part of it that is
> close to the FSF, I'd speculate that it's because of some discomfort
> in using more direct "ownership" rhetoric, as perhaps that seems to
> legitimize so-called intellectual property, especially in a context
> where the copyright owner is playing a neutral-to-positive role (from
> a free software/copyleft perspective).
>
> Richard
>
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Licensed under the Linkumori Free License, Version 1.0 (the "License");
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You may obtain a copy of the License at:

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Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, the Work
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WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the
License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations
under the License.

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If Your Work has multiple copyright owners (for example, where Contributors have added to the original), each owner's copyright should be listed on a separate line:

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