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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 6/22/2026 4:20 AM, subham mahesh
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<div dir="ltr">Subject: Please Disregard My Previous Email:
Updated Draft Attached<br>
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Respected Ma'am,<br>
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Please disregard my previous email. Upon further review, I
went back through the draft again and found, and fixed, most
of the remaining issues.<br>
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I've attached the latest, current version of the Linkumori
Free License here. This supersedes both the version you
originally received through the OSI license-review list and
the corrected draft I sent in my last email.<br>
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Apologies for the back-and-forth, and thank you again for your
patience and for the thorough original feedback. It has made a
real difference in getting this draft into shape.<br>
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For clarity: nothing in this email or the attached draft is
intended as, or should be construed as, legal advice.<br>
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Best,<br>
Subham Mahesh<br>
Education:<br>
Global Studies, School of Global Affairs<br>
Dr. B. R. Ambedkar University Delhi<br>
CPJ College of Higher Studies & School of Law<br>
Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University</div>
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style="font-family:times new roman,serif">On Mon, 22 Jun
2026 at 14:30, subham mahesh <<a
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<div><span style="font-family:times new roman,serif">Subject:
Correction: You Received an Outdated Draft of the
Linkumori Free License (via OSI License-Review)<br>
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Respected Ma'am,<br>
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I wanted to flag that the draft of the Linkumori
Free License you received was, unfortunately, an
outdated version, not the current one. That older
draft was the one shared with you through the OSI
license-review list, rather than the updated draft I
had prepared. I've attached the correct, current
draft to this email.<br>
<br>
In going back through the version that was shared
via license-review, I found that many of the issues
you raised in your earlier comments, including the
inconsistent "copyright holder" vs. "copyright
owner" usage, the mixed BSD/Apache/GPL language in
the patent grant, the undefined "following
disclaimer" reference, the Section 4 notice and cure
language, and others, were in fact still present in
it. I've since gone through and addressed the
majority of them in the attached version, and wanted
to get the corrected draft in front of you directly
so any further review is based on this one rather
than the one circulated on license-review.<br>
<br>
Apologies for the mix-up, and thank you again for
the thorough feedback. It has been very helpful in
tightening up the license.<br>
<br>
Best,<br>
Subham Mahesh<br>
Education:<br>
Global Studies, School of Global Affairs<br>
Dr. B. R. Ambedkar University Delhi<br>
CPJ College of Higher Studies & School of Law<br>
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<div><span style="font-family:times new roman,serif">For
clarity: nothing in this email or the attached
draft is intended as, or should be construed as,
legal advice.</span></div>
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<div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr"><span
style="font-family:times new roman,serif">On Mon, 22
Jun 2026 at 10:03, Pamela Chestek <<a
href="mailto:pamela@chesteklegal.com"
target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true"
class="moz-txt-link-freetext">pamela@chesteklegal.com</a>>
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<p><span style="font-family:times new roman,serif">Is
the license complete? In both versions this is
at the end:</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:100%"
align="left"> <font
style="font-family:times new roman,serif"
color="#000000"><font style="font-size:12pt"
size="3">5. REDISTRIBUTIONS IN BINARY FORM </font></font>
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<p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:100%"
align="left"><font
style="font-family:times new roman,serif"
color="#000000"><font style="font-size:12pt"
size="3"><u>APPENDIX: How to Apply the
Linkumori Free License to Your Work</u></font></font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:100%"
align="left"><span
style="font-family:times new roman,serif">So
there do not appear to be any terms for
redistribution in Binary Form, and other parts
seem to be missing.</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:100%"
align="left"><span
style="font-family:times new roman,serif">With
respect to your questions about Section 4, in
4(b) you say this: "<i>Such notice need not
appear on the same webpage as the
redistribution, provided it is accessible at a
stable URL on that registered domain <u>and </u>that
URL is either disclosed in the Source Code
Form of the redistributing webpage or
reasonably discoverable from it. A notice
served from any subdomain of the registered
domain satisfies this requirement</i>." The
last sentence seems to say that I can put the
notice on any subdomain without having to comply
with the preceding sentence that the location be
included in the source code form. So it could be
a needle in a haystack of subdomains? And can
you give an example of how the notice might be
"reasonably discoverable from [the source code
form]"? Where am I seeing the source code to see
the notice?</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:100%"
align="left"><span
style="font-family:times new roman,serif">And
what are you trying to accomplish with the
complexity of the registered domain? First, it's
not clear whether "Registered domain" as defined
means a second/top level domain or it can mean
subdomain/second/top level domain. But why not
just say it has to be clearly identified? Why
does it have to be on the same domain?</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:100%"
align="left"><span
style="font-family:times new roman,serif">What
is the problem that the CDN section is trying to
solve? </span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:100%"
align="left"><span
style="font-family:times new roman,serif">In
Section 4(b) you refer to "this list of
conditions." What list of conditions? Between
the definitions and Section 1 (P.S., don't have
unnumbered paragraphs), you say "the following
conditions" -- so is it only Section 1 through
(whatever the end is) that are the conditions?
Why not just make it the license? </span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:100%"
align="left"><span
style="font-family:times new roman,serif">In
4(c) you refer to "this section's notice
requirement." There is a distribution
requirement in 4(b), is that the one you mean?</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:100%"
align="left"><span
style="font-family:times new roman,serif">Why is
distribution in binary form in a new section 5
rather than a subsection of section 4? The
introduction to Section 4 says the section is
for Source Code Form and Binary Form, so why
would the requirements for Binary Code be in a
new section? Section 4(d) is also for transpiled
code, which you have defined as Binary Code in
the definitions, so why are you treating this
one specific type of binary code differently
from the other types of binary?</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:times new roman,serif">There
are also a number of drafting problems that I
won't redline, but I will make a few comments:</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:times new roman,serif">Be
consistent. You use "shall" in some definitions
and not others.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:times new roman,serif">Don't
mix language from different licenses. Each
license has its own structure and definitions,
so plucking words or sections out and using them
in another license doesn't work. You added
language from the BSD license ("Redistribution
and use in source and binary forms, with or
without modification, are permitted provided
that the following conditions are met") but it
is redundant to parts of the Apache license that
you kept. I see you added "run, modify and
propagate" to the patent grant language. I
believe "propagate" is a term unique to the
$GPLv3 licenses and it is defined there, so it
doesn't work here without that definition. Why
did you add "run, modify"? The Apache patent
license grant lists all of the US exclusive
rights of a patent owner, so what do "run" and
"modify" add? </span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:times new roman,serif">You've
moved some of the notice provisions from a
stand-alone paragraph to the copyright grant.
Why? Does that mean they are no longer
conditions of the patent grant?</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:times new roman,serif">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."</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:times new roman,serif">You've
defined "Publicly Displayed or Performed" as a
unitary term, but then in the copyright grant
referred to two separate rights, "publicly
display, publicly perform." If you define a
term, you need to use it that way.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:times new roman,serif">You
refer to "following disclaimer" but I don't see
any disclaimer anywhere, at least not described
as such. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:times new roman,serif">You
need to be sure that your capitalization of
defined terms is consistent throughout.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:times new roman,serif">Pam</span></p>
<div><span style="font-family:times new roman,serif">Pamela
S. Chestek<br>
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<div><span style="font-family:times new roman,serif">On
6/17/2026 12:20 AM, subham mahesh wrote:<br>
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<div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr"><span
style="font-family:times new roman,serif">On
Tue, 16 Jun 2026 at 21:30, subham mahesh
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<div dir="ltr"><span
style="font-family:times new roman,serif">Dear License Review Committee
and Community,<br>
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I am writing to formally submit the
Linkumori Free License, Version 1.0 for
OSI review and approval. I am the
license author and steward.<br>
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style="font-family:times new roman,serif"><br>
By way of introduction: I hold a BA in
Social Science from Ambedkar University
Delhi, and I am currently a law student
at CPJ College of Higher Studies &
School of Law, Guru Gobind Singh
Indraprastha University, Narela, Delhi.
My background in social science and my
ongoing legal studies informed the
drafting of this license, particularly
its attention to practical attribution
obligations across modern software
distribution channels.<br>
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style="font-family:times new roman,serif"><br>
The license text is attached as a plain
text file.<br>
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GAP FILLED<br>
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Existing permissive licenses, including
Apache 2.0, MIT, and BSD, were drafted
before the widespread adoption of modern
web bundling, CDN distribution, and
transpiled JavaScript. None of them
provide clear, enforceable attribution
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fills this gap through Section 4, which
explicitly addresses attribution
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This matters increasingly as IP
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attribution obligations in web contexts
where existing license language is
silent or ambiguous.<br>
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COMPARISON TO APACHE 2.0<br>
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The key difference is Section 4, which
Apache 2.0 does not have. Apache 2.0's
attribution requirements are
technology-neutral to the point of being
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LEGAL REVIEW<br>
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The license was drafted by me as a law
student. It has not undergone
independent review by a qualified legal
professional, and I welcome scrutiny
from the community during this process.<br>
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LICENSE DETAILS<br>
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style="font-family:times new roman,serif"><br>
Name: Linkumori Free License<br>
Version: 1.0<br>
Date: June 2026<br>
Steward: Linkumori<br>
SPDX Identifier: Not yet assigned<br>
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Thank you for your time and
consideration.<br>
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style="font-family:times new roman,serif"><br>
Sincerely,<br>
Subham Mahesh<br>
Law Student, CPJ College of Higher
Studies & School of Law<br>
Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha
University, Narela, Delhi<br>
BA Social Science, Ambedkar University
Delhi<br>
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