[License-review] Request for Approval of NO NONSENSE OPEN SOURCE LICENSE

[Love Nystrom]

Best Colleagues,

I submit a request for OSI review and approval of this "No Nonsense Open 
Source License".

This license is a direct derivative of the BSD 3-clause license, with 
the addition
of a 4th clause specifically prohibiting a 3rd party to charge for the 
original work.

There is good reason for such a clause, in light of some horrific 
examples seen
recently in the Open Source software community, where a 3d party have 
charged
100s of dollars for open source software, with little or no derivative 
efforts of their own.

I feel the BSD license is "short, sweet, and to the point", and 
therefore a good starting point,
but none of the licenses I've reviewed address the issue of 3rd parties 
extracting economic profit
from work that's been freely given by it's original author(s). Quite 
contrary, all the existing licenses
seem to explicitly or implicitly permit 3rd parties to sell work not of 
their own making.
I believe this to be very wrong.

The new 4th clause permits a 3rd party to charge for their own efforts 
only.

That is, they may e.g. charge proportionally to the ratio of their own 
work to the extent of
the original work, for their own derivative work, when they include the 
original work in their own,
or, extract a reasonable fee for media and shipping if they send 
physical copies to a 3rd party, & c..,
but they may not charge for the original work itself without written 
permission from the original author(s).

The BSD license has also been re-phrased slightly, replacing "software" 
with the more generic "work",
in an attempt to make it applicable to a wider audience of authors.
The 3rd clause, governing endorsement, may be optional, at the 
discretion of the author(s),
as with the current BSD license.

It is my hope that the review process can actually make the text of the 
4th clause a bit shorter,
while still retaining the clarity of intent.

Best Regards
     B.O.Love Nystrom
     Senior software engineer
     Independent Software Developers

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