<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 gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, 23 Jun, 2026, 9:40\u202fpm Pamela Chestek, <<a href="mailto:pamela@chesteklegal.com">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"><u></u>
<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">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">
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">
El Dorado Hills, CA 95762</a><br>
+1 919-800-8033<br>
<a href="mailto:pamela@chesteklegal.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">pamela@chesteklegal.com</a><br>
<a href="http://www.chesteklegal.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">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" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">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" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">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>