[License-review] Fwd: For Approval | Open Source Social Network License 1.0

Brendan Hickey brendan.m.hickey at gmail.com
Thu Mar 26 14:03:57 UTC 2020


Hi Arsalan,

Was this license reviewed by an attorney? This is a prerequisite for
consideration here.

Brendan

On Thu, Mar 26, 2020 at 8:52 AM Syed Arsalan Hussain Shah <
arsalan at buddyexpress.net> wrote:

> Hi There,
>
> This email is for submission about license.
>
> Rationale: We have launched open source social network software (
> opensource-socialnetwork.org) in 2014 and most of open source license
> allows usage of software without proper credits to author. We created own
> license to assure that the author is properly credited and the credit must
> be visible to people who use the product. We have seen the Attribute
> assurance license (AAL) but it lacks the assurance of retaining copyright
> notice in each copy of the software. This license is fork from AAL.
>
> Distinguish :
>
> Description | AAL | BSD | MIT | OSSNL
>
> Give Credit in visible form | Yes | No | No | Yes
> Include Copyright  | - | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes
>
> Hold Liable | No | No | No | No
> Modify | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes
> Distribute | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes
>
>
> Proliferation category :  Licenses that are redundant with more popular
> licenses
> Discussion :
> https://github.com/opensource-socialnetwork/opensource-socialnetwork/issues/1356
>
> If anything else is needed or something wrong license and please help us
> to correct it, we are open to yours feedback.
>
> Thanks
> Arsalan Shah
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