[License-review] For Approval: Scripting Free Software License, Version 1.3.5 (S-FSL v1.3.5)

[Josh Berkus]

On 11/05/2013 12:37 PM, Elmar Stellnberger wrote:
> 
> 1. The license should not only protect itself but any reference given to
> the authors such as concerning their web presence. The primary
> motivation to publish some software which should now be released under
> S-FSL was to attract people to the authors web page so that the ability
> to remove any such reference would have been a pitfall to the developers
> and publishers. It should also protect to some extent against
> re-publishing the software at another site with higher page rank
> possibly at cost just with the intention to draw off traffic from the
> original site (like f.i. already done with OpenOffice). It is the right
> of the user at least to know about the primary upstream page in the web.

This is what is known as a "vanity license" and I believe prohibited
from certification for that reason.  If what you really want is
shareware, then do shareware: it's a venerable and well-proven business
model.

-1 from me.

--Josh Berkus