[License-review] For Legacy Approval: TOPPERS License

[Yutaka MATSUBARA]

Hello all,

We, committee members of TOPPERS Project, decided to replace the 
phrase "either of ..." with "at least one of ..." to avoid confusions. 
The revised license text is as follows. We believe that TOPPERS 
License becomes more clear and will be approved soon.

License text:
----- start of license text -----
<Name of Software>

Copyright (C) <Year> by <Copyright Holder 1>
Copyright (C) <Year> by <Copyright Holder 2>
...

  The above copyright holders grant permission gratis to use,
  duplicate, modify, or redistribute (hereafter called use) this
  software (including the one made by modifying this software),
  provided that the following four conditions (1) through (4) are
  satisfied.

  (1) When this software is used in the form of source code, the above
      copyright notice, this use conditions, and the disclaimer shown
      below must be retained in the source code without modification.

  (2) When this software is redistributed in the forms usable for the
      development of other software, such as in library form, the above
      copyright notice, this use conditions, and the disclaimer shown
      below must be shown without modification in the document provided
      with the redistributed software, such as the user manual.

  (3) When this software is redistributed in the forms unusable
      for the development of other software, such as the case when
      the software is embedded in a piece of equipment, at least
      one of the following two conditions must be satisfied:

    (a) The above copyright notice, this use conditions, and the
        disclaimer shown below must be shown without modification in
        the document provided with the redistributed software, such as
        the user manual.

    (b) How the software is to be redistributed must be reported to the
        TOPPERS Project according to the procedure described
        separately.

  (4) The above copyright holders and the TOPPERS Project are exempt
      from responsibility for any type of damage directly or indirectly
      caused from the use of this software and are indemnified by any
      users or end users of this software from any and all causes of
      action whatsoever.

  THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS." THE ABOVE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND
  THE TOPPERS PROJECT DISCLAIM ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES,
  INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, ITS APPLICABILITY TO A PARTICULAR
  PURPOSE. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE ABOVE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND THE
  TOPPERS PROJECT BE LIABLE FOR ANY TYPE OF DAMAGE DIRECTLY OR
  INDIRECTLY CAUSED FROM THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE.
----- end of license text -----

If you have any questions or suggestions, please let me know.

Thanks,
Yutaka

On 6/13/15 09:54, Yutaka MATSUBARA wrote:
> Hello Richard, Josh and John,
>
>>> I can't quite put my finger on why but the way 'either' is used there
>>> makes me wonder whether the license author meant to unidiomatically
>>> indicate "both". Can the license submitter comment on this?
>>
>> Yes, this confused me too (hence my earlier posting).  "Either" in
>> English
>> can mean "both", as in "There are trees on either side of the street",
>> meaning on both sides of it.  This is not a situation where people are
>> well served by the use of "either", but since it's legacy, I withdraw
>> my objection.
>
> Thanks for your suggestions!
>
> TOPPERS license is described in Japanese (original version) and
> English respectively. I think that is basically a problem in
> translation from Japanese to English. In the Japanese version of
> TOPPERS License, that is completely clear.
>
> If possible, I would like to replace that with the phrase "one of the
> following two conditions".
>
> Thanks,
> Yutaka
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