[License-review] Review: Zeppelin Public License

Not An FBI Agent totallynotafed at fbi.ac
Thu Oct 19 17:06:03 UTC 2023


Hello! I made my own license that I wish to submit for review. I have 
submitted the license in a text file on the e-mail, and it complies with 
the open-source standards. No projects currently use it other than the 
projects that I am currently making, which are in private GitHub 
repositories. I am also the license steward. The name of the license is 
_Zeppelin Public License__ Version 1.0_.

The gap that the project is to fill the hole between permissive and 
weak-copyleft, as I believe that while both are good, I prefer something 
in the middle. I believe that the most similar license to the Zeppelin 
Public License is the Apache License, and comparing and contrasting it 
shows that both the Apache License and the Zeppelin Public Licenses are 
permissive, both support the open-source movement, both support the 
rights of software creators, both support the rights of users, and both 
support the rights of derivative works. Some differences are that the 
Apache is extremely verbose whilst the Zeppelin Public License is 
shorter and simpler, as well as being a little bit more permissive. 
Unfortunately, due to my age, I could not get a lawyer to review the 
license, however after reading it a dozen of times, it seems legally 
plausible.

Thank you!

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Not A Federal Agent

No seriously, I'm not a fed
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federal agencies. Any similarities to real feds are purely coincidental
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Zeppelin Public License Version 1.0
(c) [year] [name]
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Permission is hereby granted to anyone who wishes to use this software 
for distribution in source or binary form, modification, publishing, 
redistribution with or without modification, commercial, consumer,
private, and/or special usage, under the following conditions:

  1. Any contributions shall be licensed to the terms of the
  license. You may not change the licensing of your 
  contributions without prior approval of the maintainer(s) of
  the project.

  2. You may not falsely represent the original source of the 
  software; for example, you may not tell people you created
  or wrote this project if you are not the author or maintainer.

  3. You must disclose the source, and retain the licensing, 
  ad verbum, in the source form, including this notice. You 
  are not required to disclose the license in the binary form 
  of the software, however it is strongly recommended; you must,
  however, attribute the origin in the binary form.

  4. You may not use the names of the copyright holders 
  and/or the contributors/developers for endorsement of a
  derivative of this software unless you were given explicit, 
  written consent from the individuals you wish to use their 
  names. This include trademark, trade name, service name and
  product name. Exception is granted for attribution to the origin
  of the derivative.

  5. The license may not be modified other than the addition
  of clauses (also known as sublicensing), modification of the 
  marked boilerplate components of the license, and if the maintainer
  of the origin, the removal of clauses.

THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED 'AS-IS', WITHOUT ANY EXPRESS OF IMPLIED 
WARRANTY. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS BE HELD LIABLE FOR ANY 
DAMAGES ARISING FROM THE USAGE OF THE SOFTWARE.


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