[License-review] [SUBMISSION] CompanioNation Public Licence, version 1.0 (CNPL-1.0)

Josh Berkus josh at berkus.org
Tue Apr 21 15:37:54 UTC 2026


On 4/18/26 5:47 AM, Pamela Chestek wrote:
> OSI will not approve licenses where the title refers to a particular 
> person, entity or software or that have them "hard coded" into the 
> license (see "Standard for New Licenses" para. 1, https:// 
> opensource.org/licenses/review-process). For this reason, the license 
> name and the text of the license cannot include "CompanionNation."

BTW, if you don't understand the reason for this: that name is your 
company trademark.  Which means you can't reasonably also license the 
same name as the license name, to be freely used by anyone who uses the 
license, or you'd lose control of your own company name.

-- 
Josh Berkus


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