[License-review] Approval,YOS

[McCoy Smith]

The license review process requires you to provide the following
information, which you haven’t done here:

 

Rationale: Clearly state rationale for a new license

Distinguish: Compare to and contrast with the most similar OSI-approved
license(s)

Legal review: Describe any legal review the license has been through, and
provide results of any legal analysis if available

Proliferation category: Recommend which license proliferation category is
appropriate

 

Given this appears to be some sort of modified version of GPL, pointing out
which version you used, and how you altered it, and the reason for that
alteration is really required for anyone to give useful commentary. You’re
also going to need to explain the legal review that was done, and how the
changes you made are legally valid and conformant with the OSD. Also, what
is the rationale for this license – what problem does it solve that existing
approved licenses don’t? The text does not make that apparent. 

 

Before you do that, I’d suggest you have not made a complete submission and
further consideration of this license should be suspended by OSI.

 

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How to Apply These Terms to Your New Programs


If you develop a new program, and you want it to be of the greatest possible
use to the public, the best way to achieve this is to make it free software
which everyone can redistribute and change under these terms.

To do so, attach the following notices to the program. It is safest to
attach them to the start of each source file to most effectively convey the
exclusion of warranty; and each file should have at least the “copyright”
line and a pointer to where the full notice is found.
One line to give the program’s name and a brief idea of what it does.

Copyright (C) 
(No need to add)

(If this item is not added, this license will automatically lapse)
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
under the terms of the YOS General Public License as published by YATeam;
either version 1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT
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If the program is interactive, make it output a short notice like this when
it starts in an interactive mode:

Gnomovision version 69, Copyright (C) year name of author Gnomovision comes
with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; for details type ‘yos w’. This is free
software, and you are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions;
type ‘yos c’ for details.

The hypothetical commands ‘yos w’ and ‘yos c’ should show the appropriate
parts of the General Public License. Of course, the commands you use may be
called something other than ‘yos w’ and ‘yos c’; they could even be
mouse-clicks or menu items–whatever suits your program.
You should also get your employer (if you work as a programmer) or your
school, if any, to sign a “copyright disclaimer” for the program, if
necessary.
This General Public License does not permit incorporating your program into
proprietary programs. If your program is a subroutine library, you may
consider it more useful to permit linking proprietary applications with the
library.

 

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