<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
</head>
<body>
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. <br>
<br>
<div class="moz-signature">Pamela S. Chestek<br>
Chestek Legal<br>
4641 Post St.<br>
Unit 4316<br>
El Dorado Hills, CA 95762<br>
+1 919-800-8033<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:pamela@chesteklegal.com">pamela@chesteklegal.com</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="http://www.chesteklegal.com">www.chesteklegal.com</a><br>
<br>
</div>
<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 6/23/2026 9:18 AM, subham mahesh
wrote:<br>
</div>
<blockquote type="cite"
cite="mid:CAPePE0La5jfG1dnH=F8Kb2=ZDXoj+aH1-5KhuFG3SCWEVT-5Hw@mail.gmail.com">
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
<div dir="auto">Respected Madam,
<div dir="auto">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.</div>
<div dir="auto"><br>
</div>
</div>
<br>
<div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container">
<div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, 23 Jun, 2026, 9:42\u202fpm
subham mahesh, <<a href="mailto:indsubham6@gmail.com"
moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext">indsubham6@gmail.com</a>>
wrote:<br>
</div>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote"
style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div dir="auto">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.</div>
<br>
<div class="gmail_quote">
<div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, 23 Jun, 2026,
9:40\u202fpm Pamela Chestek, <<a
href="mailto:pamela@chesteklegal.com" target="_blank"
rel="noreferrer" moz-do-not-send="true"
class="moz-txt-link-freetext">pamela@chesteklegal.com</a>>
wrote:<br>
</div>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote"
style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div> 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.<br>
<br>
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.<br>
<br>
Pam<br>
<br>
<div>Pamela S. Chestek<br>
Chestek Legal<br>
<a
href="https://www.google.com/maps/search/4641+Post+St.+%0D%0A++++++Unit+4316+%0D%0A++++++El+Dorado+Hills,+CA+95762?entry=gmail&source=g"
target="_blank" rel="noreferrer"
moz-do-not-send="true">4641 Post St.</a><br>
<a
href="https://www.google.com/maps/search/4641+Post+St.+%0D%0A++++++Unit+4316+%0D%0A++++++El+Dorado+Hills,+CA+95762?entry=gmail&source=g"
target="_blank" rel="noreferrer"
moz-do-not-send="true"> Unit 4316</a><br>
<a
href="https://www.google.com/maps/search/4641+Post+St.+%0D%0A++++++Unit+4316+%0D%0A++++++El+Dorado+Hills,+CA+95762?entry=gmail&source=g"
target="_blank" rel="noreferrer"
moz-do-not-send="true"> El Dorado Hills, CA 95762</a><br>
+1 919-800-8033<br>
<a href="mailto:pamela@chesteklegal.com"
rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank"
moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext">pamela@chesteklegal.com</a><br>
<a href="http://www.chesteklegal.com"
rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank"
moz-do-not-send="true">www.chesteklegal.com</a><br>
<br>
</div>
<div>On 6/23/2026 3:12 AM, subham mahesh wrote:<br>
</div>
<blockquote type="cite">
<div dir="ltr">Subject: Linkumori Free License v1.0 \u2014
Updated Draft (Secondary License Clause Added)<br>
<br>
Hi<br>
<br>
Attached is the latest draft of the Linkumori Free
License, Version 1.0, in both HTML and plain text.<br>
<br>
A few notes on what's changed from the earlier
draft:<br>
<br>
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.<br>
<br>
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) \u2014 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.<br>
<br>
3. Warranty, Liability, and Governing Law
restructured (Sections 12\u201315). 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.<br>
<br>
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.<br>
<br>
Let me know your thoughts, especially on the moral
rights section, before we lock this version in.<br>
<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>
<br>
<div>DISCLAIMER: This submission and any statements
made herein do not constitute legal advice and
should not be relied upon as such. The analysis
provided reflects the personal academic views of
the submitter and is intended solely for the
purpose of OSI license review. Individuals and
organizations seeking guidance on licensing
matters are encouraged to consult a qualified
legal professional.</div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div>
<div>
<h1>Linkumori Free License</h1>
<p>Version 1.0, June 2026</p>
<p> Copyright 2026 Linkumori<br>
Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute
verbatim copies of this license document, but
changing it is not allowed. </p>
<h2>Definitions</h2>
<dl>
<dt>\u201cLicense\u201d</dt>
<dd>means the terms and conditions for use,
reproduction, and distribution as defined in
this document.</dd>
<dt>\u201cWork\u201d</dt>
<dd>shall mean the work of authorship, whether
in Source or Object form, made available
under the License.</dd>
<dt>\u201cLarger Work\u201d</dt>
<dd>means a work that combines the Work with
other material, in a separate file or files,
where that other material is not governed by
the terms of this License as granted by the
Licensor or any Contributor.</dd>
<dt>\u201cYou\u201d (or \u201cYour\u201d)</dt>
<dd>means an individual or Legal Entity
exercising permissions granted by this
License.</dd>
<dt>\u201cLicensor\u201d</dt>
<dd>means the copyright owner or entity
authorized by the copyright owner that is
granting this License.</dd>
<dt>\u201cLegal Entity\u201d</dt>
<dd>means the union of the acting entity and
all other entities that control, are
controlled by, or are under common control
with that entity. For the purposes of this
definition, \u201ccontrol\u201d means (i) the power,
direct or indirect, to cause the direction
or management of such entity, whether by
contract or otherwise, or (ii) ownership of
fifty percent (50%) or more of the
outstanding shares, or (iii) beneficial
ownership of such entity.</dd>
<dt>\u201cContributor\u201d</dt>
<dd>means the Licensor and any individual or
Legal Entity on behalf of whom a
Contribution has been received by the
Licensor and subsequently incorporated
within the Work.</dd>
<dt>\u201cContribution\u201d</dt>
<dd>means any work of authorship, including
the original version of the Work and any
modifications or additions to that Work or
Derivative Works thereof, that is
intentionally submitted to the Licensor for
inclusion in the Work by the copyright owner
or by an individual or Legal Entity
authorized to submit on behalf of the
copyright owner. For the purposes of this
definition, \u201csubmitted\u201d means any form of
electronic, verbal, or written communication
sent to the Licensor or its representatives,
including but not limited to communication
on electronic mailing lists, source code
control systems, and issue tracking systems
that are managed by, or on behalf of, the
Licensor for the purpose of discussing and
improving the Work, but excluding
communication that is conspicuously marked
or otherwise designated in writing by the
copyright owner as \u201cNot a Contribution.\u201d</dd>
<dt>\u201cDerivative Works\u201d</dt>
<dd>means any work, whether in Source Code
Form or Binary Form, that is based on (or
derived from) the Work and for which the
editorial revisions, annotations,
elaborations, or other modifications
represent, as a whole, an original work of
authorship. For purposes of this License,
Derivative Works do not include works that
remain separable from, or merely link (or
bind by name) to the interfaces of, the Work
and Derivative Works thereof.</dd>
<dt>\u201cSource Code Form\u201d</dt>
<dd>means the preferred form of the Work for
making modifications, including but not
limited to human-readable source code,
documentation source, and configuration
files.</dd>
<dt>\u201cBinary Form\u201d</dt>
<dd>means any form of the Work resulting from
mechanical transformation or translation of
a Source Code Form, including but not
limited to compiled object code, minified or
transpiled code, generated documentation,
and conversions to other media types.</dd>
<dt>\u201cPublicly Accessible\u201d</dt>
<dd>means accessible to any member of the
general public, by any means, regardless of
whether access requires registration,
payment, or authentication, so long as such
registration, payment, or authentication is
itself generally available to any member of
the public who seeks it, rather than limited
to a specific, individually identified
person or a closed group of authorized
recipients.</dd>
<dt>\u201cGeoblocking\u201d</dt>
<dd>means any technical or contractual measure
that restricts or prevents access to the
Work, in whole or in part, based on the
geographic location of a user or recipient,
whether implemented to comply with
applicable law or as a matter of Your own
business or operational decision, including
restrictions based on Internet Protocol
address, mobile network or carrier, device
or account region settings, payment
instrument issuing country, or similar
location signals.</dd>
<dt>\u201cSecondary License\u201d</dt>
<dd>means either the GNU General Public
License, Version 2.0, the GNU Lesser General
Public License, Version 2.1, the GNU Affero
General Public License, Version 3.0, or any
later versions of those licenses.</dd>
</dl>
<h2>1. Grant of Copyright License</h2>
<p>Subject to the terms and conditions of this
License, each Contributor hereby grants to You
a perpetual, worldwide, non-exclusive,
no-charge, royalty-free, irrevocable copyright
license to reproduce, prepare Derivative Works
of, publicly display, publicly perform,
sublicense, and distribute the Work and such
Derivative Works in Source Code Form or Binary
Form. You may add Your own copyright statement
to Your modifications and may provide
additional or different license terms and
conditions for use, reproduction, or
distribution of Your modifications, or for any
such Derivative Works as a whole, provided
Your use, reproduction, and distribution of
the Work otherwise complies with the
conditions stated in this License.</p>
<h2>2. Grant of Patent License</h2>
<p>Subject to the terms and conditions of this
License, each Contributor hereby grants to You
a perpetual, worldwide, non-exclusive,
no-charge, royalty-free, irrevocable (except
as stated in this Section) patent license to
make, have made, use, offer to sell, sell,
import, and otherwise transfer the Work, where
such license applies only to those patent
claims, both currently owned by the
Contributor and acquired in future, licensable
by such Contributor that are necessarily
infringed by their Contribution(s) alone or by
combination of their Contribution(s) with the
Work to which such Contribution(s) was
submitted. This grant does not include claims
that would be infringed only as a consequence
of further modification of the Work. If You or
Your agent or exclusive licensee institute or
order or agree to the institution of patent
litigation or any other patent enforcement
activity against any entity (including a
cross-claim or counterclaim in a lawsuit)
alleging that the Work or any Contribution
incorporated within the Work constitutes
direct or contributory patent infringement, or
inducement of patent infringement, then any
patent rights granted to You under this
License for the Work shall terminate as of the
date such litigation is filed.</p>
<h2>3. Redistributions in Source Code Form</h2>
<p>Redistributions of the Work in Source Code
Form, including in the Source Code Form of any
Derivative Works that You distribute, must
retain the copyright notice and this License,
together with all copyright, patent,
trademark, and attribution notices appearing
in the Source Code Form of the Work, excluding
those notices that do not pertain to any part
of the Derivative Works. You must give any
other recipients of the Work or Derivative
Works a copy of this License. Compliance with
this Section is a condition of the rights and
licenses granted under both Section 1 and
Section 2.</p>
<h2>4. Redistributions via Website or Webpage</h2>
<p>For purposes of this License, redistribution
of the Work via a website or web application
occurs whenever a user\u2019s browser receives a
copy of the Work, in Source Code Form or
Binary Form, as part of using a Publicly
Accessible website or web application \u2014
including on initial page load and through any
subsequent or on-demand transfer, such as
dynamic imports, code-split bundles, service
workers, or web workers. Compliance with this
Section is a condition of the rights and
licenses granted under both Section 1 and
Section 2. Where such redistribution occurs,
the following conditions apply:</p>
<h3>(a) Responsible Party</h3>
<p>The obligations of this Section fall on the
operator of the website or web application
that causes the Work to be delivered to the
user (the \u201cPublisher\u201d). Where the Work is
served through a content delivery network or
other hosting intermediary acting solely at
the Publisher\u2019s direction and without
modifying the Work, that intermediary bears no
obligation under this Section.</p>
<h3>(b) Visible Notice</h3>
<p>The Publisher must include, within the
content rendered to the user by the website or
web application \u2014 in a place reasonably likely
to be encountered during ordinary use, such as
a footer, credits page, settings panel, or
comparable location \u2014 a statement that the
website or web application incorporates the
Work and is governed in part by this License.
A notice satisfies this subsection only if it
forms part of the content presented to the
user; a notice present solely in the Source
Code Form, markup comments, metadata, or HTTP
headers does not satisfy this subsection.</p>
<h3>(c) Full Text Availability</h3>
<p>The Publisher must make the copyright notice
and this License available in full at a
stable, Publicly Accessible URL referenced by
the notice required under subsection (b). This
URL may be hosted on any domain or subdomain
the Publisher Controls and need not match the
domain from which the Work is served. For
purposes of this subsection, \u201cControls\u201d means
that the Publisher (i) is the registrant, or
holds a registration, lease, or similar
contractual right, in the domain; or (ii) has,
through a hosting, platform, or similar
service, the practical ability to publish,
modify, or remove content served at that
domain or subdomain, regardless of whether the
Publisher holds the underlying domain
registration. The Publisher must maintain this
URL as Publicly Accessible for as long as the
Work continues to be redistributed under this
Section, subject to subsection (e).</p>
<h3>(d) Embedded Notice (Optional)</h3>
<p>In addition to, and not as a substitute for,
subsections (b) and (c), the Publisher may
embed a copyright notice and reference to this
License as a comment within the Source Code
Form or Binary Form of the Work as delivered
to the user\u2019s browser. Compliance with
subsections (b) and (c) is not excused by the
absence, removal, or obscuring of any such
embedded comment during minification,
transpilation, bundling, or similar mechanical
transformation.</p>
<h3>(e) Temporary Unavailability; Cure</h3>
<p>A lapse in the availability of the URL
required under subsection (c) is not, by
itself, a breach of this Section. If a
Contributor gives the Publisher written notice
that the URL is not Publicly Accessible, the
Publisher must, within thirty (30) days of
receiving that notice: (i) state the reason
the URL became unavailable; and (ii) restore
the URL, or designate and publish a
replacement stable, Publicly Accessible URL
satisfying subsection (c) and update the
reference required under subsection (b)
accordingly. This thirty (30) day period is
fixed by this License and does not require
agreement between the Publisher and the
Contributor. A Publisher who completes the
actions described in clauses (i) and (ii)
within this period is deemed to have remained
in compliance with subsection (c) throughout
the period of unavailability. A Publisher who
fails to do so is in breach of this Section as
of the expiration of the thirty (30) day
period.</p>
<h3>(f) Publisher\u2019s Counter-Notice</h3>
<p>Within ten (10) days after receiving a
Contributor\u2019s written notice under subsection
(e) that the URL is not Publicly Accessible,
the Publisher may respond with a written
counter-notice stating (i) the specific date
and time by which the URL will be restored, or
a replacement URL satisfying subsection (c)
will be published, and (ii) the reason for the
unavailability. A counter-notice may not state
a date and time later than the expiration of
the thirty (30) day period stated in
subsection (e), unless the Contributor who
gave the notice agrees in writing to a later
date. Subject to the foregoing, the date and
time stated in a counter-notice issued under
this subsection is final once given and is not
subject to further negotiation. If the
Publisher restores the URL, or publishes a
replacement URL satisfying subsection (c) and
updates the reference required under
subsection (b), by the date and time stated in
its counter-notice, the Publisher is deemed to
have remained in compliance with subsection
(c) throughout the period of unavailability.
If the Publisher fails to do so, the Publisher
is in breach of this Section as of the date
and time stated in the counter-notice, to the
same extent as a Publisher who fails to cure
within the thirty (30) day period under
subsection (e), except to the extent the
Publisher is entitled to rely on Section 10
(Inability to Comply Due to Law or
Geoblocking).</p>
<h2>5. Other Redistributions in Binary Form</h2>
<p>This Section applies to any reproduction or
distribution of copies of the Work or
Derivative Works thereof, in Binary Form, in
any medium, including by means of a webpage or
website, where the Work is not automatically
delivered to a user\u2019s browser as part of using
that webpage or website under Section 4 \u2014
including, without limitation, where a webpage
or website instead makes the Work available,
or intended, for separate download by the
user, or where the Work is otherwise publicly
displayed or publicly performed outside the
redistribution described in Section 4.
Redistributions of the Work in Binary Form
under this Section must reproduce the
copyright notice and this License in the
documentation and/or other materials provided
with the distribution. Compliance with this
Section is a condition of the rights and
licenses granted under both Section 1 and
Section 2.</p>
<h2>6. Submission of Contributions</h2>
<p>Unless You explicitly state otherwise, any
Contribution intentionally submitted for
inclusion in the Work by You to the Licensor
shall be under the terms and conditions of
this License, without any additional terms or
conditions. Notwithstanding the above, nothing
herein shall supersede or modify the terms of
any separate license agreement You may have
executed with the Licensor regarding such
Contributions. Submission of a Contribution
under this Section is also subject to Section
9 (Moral Rights).</p>
<h2>7. Trademarks</h2>
<p>This License does not grant permission to use
the trade names, trademarks, service marks, or
product names of the Licensor or its
Contributors, except as required for
reasonable and customary use in describing the
origin of the Work. Neither the name of the
Licensor nor the names of its Contributors may
be used to endorse or promote products derived
from the Work without specific prior written
permission.</p>
<h2>8. No Warranty of Non-Infringement;
Recipient Responsibility</h2>
<p>You understand that although each Contributor
grants the licenses to its Contributions set
forth herein, no assurances are provided by
any Contributor that the Work does not
infringe the patent or other intellectual
property rights of any other entity. Each
Contributor disclaims any liability to You for
claims brought by any other entity based on
infringement of intellectual property rights
or otherwise. As a condition to exercising the
rights and licenses granted hereunder, You
hereby assume sole responsibility to secure
any other intellectual property rights needed,
if any. For example, if a third-party patent
license is required to allow You to distribute
the Work, it is Your responsibility to acquire
that license before distributing the Work.
Each Contributor represents that, to its
knowledge, it has sufficient copyright rights
in its Contribution, if any, to grant the
copyright license set forth in this License.</p>
<h2>9. Moral Rights</h2>
<h3>(a) Waiver Where Possible</h3>
<p>To the extent any moral rights (including
rights of attribution and integrity,
publicity, privacy, and/or other similar
personality rights, however denominated under
applicable law) subsist in the Work or a
Contribution and would otherwise be
exercisable against You for Your exercise of
the rights granted under this License, each
Contributor, with respect to that
Contributor\u2019s own Contribution, and the
Licensor, with respect to the Work as a whole,
waives such moral rights to the extent such a
waiver is permitted by the law applicable to
that Contributor or the Licensor, as the case
may be.</p>
<h3>(b) Non-Assertion Where Waiver Is Not
Possible</h3>
<p>To the extent such a waiver is not permitted
under applicable law, the Contributor or
Licensor, as applicable, instead agrees not to
assert such moral rights against You, for so
long as You exercise the rights granted under
this License.</p>
<h3>(c) Scope</h3>
<p>This Section does not waive, and no
Contributor or the Licensor intends to waive,
any moral rights held against any person other
than You, nor any moral rights in any work
other than the Work or that Contributor\u2019s own
Contribution.</p>
<h3>(d) Independence from Section 4</h3>
<p>The waiver in subsection (a) and the
non-assertion in subsection (b) are not
conditioned on, and are not terminated,
suspended, or revoked by, a breach of Section
4, including a failure to cure under Section
4(e) or 4(f). Termination of the copyright or
patent licenses granted under Sections 1 and 2
for breach of this License does not, by
itself, reinstate any moral rights claim with
respect to Your use of the Work occurring
before that termination.</p>
<h3>(e) Successors</h3>
<p>Each Contributor and the Licensor intends, to
the extent permitted by applicable law, for
the waiver and non-assertion in this Section
to bind that Contributor\u2019s or the Licensor\u2019s
successors, heirs, and assigns. Where
applicable law does not permit a moral rights
waiver or non-assertion to bind successors,
heirs, or assigns, this Section does not
purport to do so.</p>
<h3>(f) Contributions</h3>
<p>Submission of a Contribution under Section 6
constitutes the Contributor\u2019s agreement to
this Section 9 with respect to that
Contribution, on the same terms as apply to
the Licensor with respect to the Work.</p>
<h2>10. Inability to Comply Due to Law or
Geoblocking</h2>
<p>If it is impossible for You to comply with
any of the terms of this License with respect
to some or all of the Work due to statute,
judicial order, regulation, or Geoblocking,
then You must: (a) comply with the terms of
this License to the maximum extent possible;
and (b) inform, by any reasonable means, those
who may access the Work from You of the
respects in which You are unable to comply and
the portions of the Work affected. Except to
the extent prohibited by statute or
regulation, the information provided under
subsection (b) must be sufficiently detailed
for a recipient of ordinary skill to
understand it.</p>
<h2>11. Larger Works; Secondary Licenses</h2>
<h3>(a) Creating Larger Works</h3>
<p>You may create and distribute a Larger Work
under terms of Your own choosing for the
material in the Larger Work that is not Work,
provided that You comply with the applicable
terms of this License with respect to the Work
included in that Larger Work.</p>
<h3>(b) Distribution Under a Secondary License</h3>
<p>If the Larger Work is a combination of the
Work with a work governed by one or more
Secondary Licenses, this License permits You
to additionally distribute such Work under the
terms of such Secondary License(s), provided
that You continue to comply with the terms of
this License with respect to the Work.
Distributing the Work under a Secondary
License in this manner does not relieve You of
Your obligations under this License; it
instead gives the recipient of the Larger Work
the option, at the recipient\u2019s discretion, to
further distribute the Work under the terms of
either this License or such Secondary
License(s).</p>
<h2>12. Disclaimer of Warranty</h2>
<p>Unless required by applicable law or agreed
to in writing, Licensor provides the Work (and
each Contributor provides its Contributions)
on an \u201cAS IS\u201d BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR
CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or
implied, including, without limitation, any
warranties or conditions of TITLE,
NON-INFRINGEMENT, MERCHANTABILITY, or FITNESS
FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. You are solely
responsible for determining the
appropriateness of using or redistributing the
Work and assume any risks associated with Your
exercise of permissions under this License.</p>
<h2>13. Limitation of Liability</h2>
<p>In no event and under no legal theory,
whether in tort (including negligence),
contract, or otherwise, unless required by
applicable law (such as deliberate and grossly
negligent acts) or agreed to in writing, shall
any Contributor be liable to You for damages,
including any direct, indirect, special,
incidental, or consequential damages of any
character arising as a result of this License
or out of the use or inability to use the Work
(including but not limited to damages for loss
of goodwill, work stoppage, computer failure
or malfunction, or any and all other
commercial damages or losses), even if such
Contributor has been advised of the
possibility of such damages.</p>
<h2>14. Accepting Warranty or Additional
Liability</h2>
<p>While redistributing the Work or Derivative
Works thereof, You may choose to offer, and
charge a fee for, acceptance of support,
warranty, indemnity, or other liability
obligations and/or rights consistent with this
License. However, in accepting such
obligations, You may act only on Your own
behalf and on Your sole responsibility, not on
behalf of any other Contributor, and only if
You agree to indemnify, defend, and hold each
Contributor harmless for any liability
incurred by, or claims asserted against, such
Contributor by reason of your accepting any
such warranty or additional liability.</p>
<h2>15. Governing Law and Venue</h2>
<p>Any litigation relating to this License may
be brought only in the courts of a
jurisdiction where the defendant maintains its
principal place of business and such
litigation shall be governed by laws of that
jurisdiction, without reference to its
conflict-of-law provisions. Nothing in this
Section shall prevent a party\u2019s ability to
bring cross-claims or counter-claims.</p>
<hr>
<h2>Appendix: How to Apply the Linkumori Free
License to Your Work</h2>
<p>The copyright notice at the top of this
document applies only to the text of the
License itself. It does not govern any Work
You choose to release under this License. To
apply the Linkumori Free License to Your own
Work, attach the following notice to each
file, replacing the bracketed fields with Your
own information. Do not include the brackets.</p>
<pre>Copyright [YEAR] [YOUR NAME OR ORGANIZATION]
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.</pre>
<p>For source files, place this notice at the
top of each file.</p>
<p>For binary distributions (non-web), reproduce
this notice in the documentation or other
materials provided with the distribution, as
required by Section 5 of the License.</p>
<p>For web distributions, place the visible
notice required by Section 4(b) of the License
in the rendered content of Your website or web
application, and make the full text required
by Section 4(c) available at a stable URL You
Control. A dedicated /licenses or /credits
page is a common and acceptable location for
the full text. If that URL ever becomes
unavailable, Section 4(e) gives You a fixed
thirty-day window after notice to state why
and either restore it or publish a replacement
\u2014 a brief outage is not itself a breach.
Section 4(f) also lets You respond to that
notice with Your own specific restoration
date, which then controls in place of the
thirty-day window, so long as it falls within
the thirty days (or later, if the Contributor
who gave notice agrees in writing).</p>
<p>If Your Work has multiple copyright owners
(for example, where Contributors have added to
the original), each owner\u2019s copyright should
be listed on a separate line:</p>
<pre>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.</pre>
</div>
<br>
</div>
</div>
<br>
<div class="gmail_quote">
<div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, 22 Jun
2026 at 22:52, Richard Fontana <<a
href="mailto:fontana@sharpeleven.org"
rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank"
moz-do-not-send="true"
class="moz-txt-link-freetext">fontana@sharpeleven.org</a>>
wrote:<br>
</div>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote"
style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">On
Mon, Jun 22, 2026 at 12:35\u202fAM Pamela Chestek <<a
href="mailto:pamela@chesteklegal.com"
rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank"
moz-do-not-send="true"
class="moz-txt-link-freetext">pamela@chesteklegal.com</a>>
wrote:<br>
><br>
> 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."<br>
<br>
This may now be moot (in the American English
sense) because the<br>
submitter has apparently revised the license to
consistently use<br>
"copyright owner", but it seems "copyright holder"
is a fairly widely<br>
used alternative to "copyright owner" (the terms
seem to be synonymous<br>
when looking at evidence of existing use)
including in some<br>
governmental materials. In FOSS
rhetoric/documents, it has been my<br>
casual observation that "copyright holder" seems
to be preferred over<br>
"copyright owner", I think perhaps due to the
influence of Richard<br>
Stallman and the Free Software Foundation (where,
I'd hypothesize, the<br>
preference in FOSS, if there is one, originally
arose). As to *why*<br>
that preference exists in FOSS, or at least in the
part of it that is<br>
close to the FSF, I'd speculate that it's because
of some discomfort<br>
in using more direct "ownership" rhetoric, as
perhaps that seems to<br>
legitimize so-called intellectual property,
especially in a context<br>
where the copyright owner is playing a
neutral-to-positive role (from<br>
a free software/copyleft perspective).<br>
<br>
Richard<br>
</blockquote>
</div>
</blockquote>
<br>
</div>
</blockquote>
</div>
</blockquote>
</div>
</blockquote>
<br>
</body>
</html>