[License-review] Approval request for GG License 1.0

[Valentino Giudice]

I have tried to fix the problem:
*Preamble*
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2015-01-09 15:26 GMT+01:00 Valentino Giudice <valentino.giudice at vallauri.edu
>:

> Thank You, Engel Nyst!
>
> I am going to edit the license in order to fix this and other defects.
>
> Best regards.
>
> 2015-01-09 14:36 GMT+01:00 Engel Nyst <engel.nyst at gmail.com>:
>
>> Hello Valentino,
>>
>> Just one point on your license.
>>
>> On 12/30/2014 01:39 PM, Valentino Giudice wrote:
>> >
>> >
>> > You must therefore delete any copy of this work and on any derivative
>> > work you have.
>>
>> I don't think the deletion of any copy of the work should be a result of
>> termination of the copyright license.
>>
>> Copyright covers actions like copying, distributing copies, modifying
>> the work.
>>
>> It doesn't cover executing the software, or "using" it.
>>
>> In Europe it doesn't even cover giving to someone else the physical
>> copy legally in your possession, now or in twenty years. If you acquire
>> a cd with the software from a store, the copyright owner of the work on
>> your cd cannot make you throw it to the trash. It's your cd. And since
>> such actions, executing the software you got, or keeping your physical
>> copy, or giving it to someone else are supposed to be beyond the reach
>> of copyright, they are supposed to be beyond the reach of a copyright
>> license.
>>
>> Similarly, you can think of a book. Once you bought it, it's your book.
>> You may get no right to copy or distribute publicly copies of it (by
>> default), but you always own that physical book. Distributing other
>> copies and reading your own copy are two different and unrelated things.
>> The publisher's "license" doesn't force you to burn your book.
>>
>> (unless you didn't acquire physical ownership, that is, you borrowed or
>> rented it. Open source software - and in fact a lot of proprietary
>> software as well - are not borrowed nor rented, though.)
>>
>> It may be more muddy in some part of the law, but not in open source
>> licensing. There is no open source license that attempts to force you to
>> delete your copy. There is no open source license that attempts to limit
>> ANY private use (in colloquial parlance) for any purpose.
>>
>> I suggest to consider it carefully and remove the requirement to delete
>> the copy from your license. The violators of your terms will no longer
>> have rights like distribute/copy/modify. However, once they get the
>> work, they can use it indefinitely.
>>
>> If you change your license on this point, you may note that it implies
>> more changes all throughout the text. For example "owning a copy"
>> doesn't require you to accept the license (in the preamble). "Using"
>> doesn't either.
>>
>> > It is inspired to the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported
>>
>> CC-BY 3.0 doesn't require you to delete your copy.
>>
>> The grants in section 3 are those that may terminate in section 7a. That
>> enumeration doesn't contain 'reading' or 'listening' or otherwise making
>> use of the copy in your possession, it contains only particular actions:
>> reproduce, distribute, publicly perform or create and reproduce
>> adaptations.
>>
>>
>> --
>> Oracle corollary to Hanlon's razor:
>> Never attribute to stupidity what can be adequately explained by malice.
>> (~ adapted from Adam Borowski)
>>
>
>
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