[License-discuss] Linkumori Free License, Version 1.0 – Submission for OSI Review
Pamela Chestek
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Tue Jun 23 16:44:09 UTC 2026
No, you do not need approval or validation from anyone, you can use any
license you choose. But you have asked for the OSI to approve your
license, which is a different matter altogether.
Pamela S. Chestek
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On 6/23/2026 9:18 AM, subham mahesh wrote:
> 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
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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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>> falls within the thirty days (or later, if the Contributor
>> who gave notice agrees in writing).
>>
>> 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:
>>
>> Copyright [YEAR] [ORIGINAL AUTHOR]
>> Copyright [YEAR] [CONTRIBUTOR NAME]
>>
>> Licensed under the Linkumori Free License, Version 1.0 (the "License");
>> you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
>> You may obtain a copy of the License at:
>>
>> [URL WHERE YOU HOST THE LICENSE TEXT]
>>
>> Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, the Work
>> distributed under the License is provided on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT
>> WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the
>> License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations
>> under the License.
>>
>>
>> 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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