New license

[Bruce Perens]

Although I understand that you mean well, this is not a license yet. 
Some additional knowledge of law and license writing is necessary. A 
long talk with a lawyer would be appropriate. I don't think anyone is 
doing a service to the community by attempting to submit a license for 
other people to use without any knowledge of what makes a license 
workable, because other people with a similar lack of knowledge might 
use it and be hurt when it fails.

And no, I don't think prohibiting harm (or any endeavor at all) fits 
within the OSD.

    Thanks

    Bruce

HDE Weird wrote:
> Hello dear Sir or Madam,
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> I'd like to submit a query to approve a new license. My idea is to create a license for Open Source software which would protect software authors from being harmed using software they have developed. In my opinion, today it becomes a very important aspect. At the moment, I have some versions of my new license, of which the last you can find in the end of the mail, however, these are all "development" version, that means - not final. The license is in development, I try to improve it. Any feedback on the license and idea itself is welcome. The license itself also points to some kind of other license, which can be applied to just every knowledge; this "further license" I called "General Knowledge Law". A copy of full text will be after the text of the first licens. The original idea was that knowledge is free but may not be used to harm its creators, and the Liquid license would be just a more concrete license for the software. Now I think the "Law" is not explicit enough and I have to change the text. The latest versions of Liquid license and "Law" can be found here: https://sourceforge.net/community/forum/topic.php?id=4872
> A further question I have is: is it an Open-Source license at all if it disallows using software to harm its creators?
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> Thanks in advance.
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> HDE Liquid License v 0.1.4
> Terms of General Knowledge Law apply.
> All software and generally knowledge under the HDE Liquid license is free.
> All software under HDE Liquid License is Open-Source.
> That means, that is may be used for free, modified and distributed in original and any modified form.
> However, software under HDE Liquid license is protected Open-Source, that means, it may not be used against its creators and developers.
> In order to make impossible that somebody can harm creators and developers of software ( further: Creators) there are some protection measures.
> Generally, the software is developed by Creators for Creators, but if Creators are sure that the software is not dangerous for them the software can be made available for all people. As dangerous are first of all computer and network security programs considered, which could be used to break into the systems of Creators in order to manipulate and/or to destroy data of Creators.
> Such software can be made community-only software, other software may be made available for all with the clause that it may not be used to
> harm Creators in any way.
> If some software is already made available for all it cannot be made available not for all any more.
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> General Knowledge Law
> 1. Knowledge is free and available for all people who do not use it for evil purposes.
> 2. Knowledge may not be applied against people who follow the General Knowledge Law.
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> Annotations
> Software including documentation and configuration data is knowledge.
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