KnowledgeHives Open Source License

[Sebastian Kruk]

Hello,

I would like to submit for review the KnowledgeHives Open Source  
License.
This license is an extension to Qt License (extended entries have been  
marked by [*]).

The rationale behind this modifications is following.
In the near future my company will deliver a search and discovery  
service. We want to allow access to the code based on an open source  
license, and still have pretty tight protection of our IP and our  
business model.

The changes introduced to Qt license are suppose to ensure that no one  
will modify those fragments of code which ensures that all instances  
of our system will contribute gathered information back to the main  
instance. Additionally we want to be notified about derived versions  
of our software as well.

The reason why we decided to deliver our code on open source was to  
ensure the users how we handle information about them, and that no  
hidden actions are performed.

We would appreciate if you could tell us if our license with these  
modifications to the Qt license can still pass as an open source  
license.

Thank you in advance,

Best regards,

Sebastian Kruk




KH Open Source License
Copyright (C) 2008 KnowledgeHives.com

Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute this license document.

The intent of this license is to establish freedom to share and change  
the software regulated by this license under the open source model.

This license applies to any software containing a notice placed by the  
copyright holder saying that it may be distributed under the terms of  
the Q Public License version 1.0. Such software is herein referred to  
as the Software. This license covers modification and distribution of  
the Software, use of third-party application programs based on the  
Software, and development of free software which uses the Software.

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