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

[subham mahesh]

Respected Madam,
I do not require approval or validation from the USA, as each country
operates under distinct legal frameworks. The brevity of a short license
does not inherently equate to its precision. Web attribution necessitates a
defensible clause; otherwise, if a website or URL is blocked, individuals
might inadvertently violate licensing agreements. Therefore, a justifiable
explanation is indeed required, and this does not constitute scope creep.


On Tue, 23 Jun, 2026, 9:42 pm subham mahesh, <indsubham6 at gmail.com> wrote:

> That was a very old draft, shared inadvertently. As I previously stated,
> in jurisdictions outside the USA, where moral rights provisions exist and
> cannot be waived, a dedicated clause is required to address this matter.
>
> On Tue, 23 Jun, 2026, 9:40 pm Pamela Chestek, <pamela at chesteklegal.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Please do not ask for review until you have finalized your work. The
>> people who review these licenses are doing it out of the goodness of their
>> heart, taking time away from their other activities to help. I spent
>> several hours on my last review, only to find out that you were still
>> substantially revising the license. Let us know when you have a final draft.
>>
>> That said, your license seems to be undergoing substantial mission creep.
>> You originally said it was to address the problem of attribution in a
>> web-based context, but now you have added moral rights, a secondary license
>> clause, and I don't know what else. It is now 3888 words, longer than the
>> GPLv3. It is excessively wordy and proscriptive. These qualities mean that
>> no one other than you will ever use this license, so it does not seem to be
>> a good candidate for approval.
>>
>> Pam
>>
>> Pamela S. Chestek
>> Chestek Legal
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>> On 6/23/2026 3:12 AM, subham mahesh wrote:
>>
>> 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.
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>> 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:
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>>> 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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