[License-review] Subject: Re: License Approval: FARCL-1.0

[Bauti el cyerborg Shitpost]

Dear OSI License-Review Committee,

Thank you for the detailed feedback. I have significantly revised the
FARCL-1.0 to address the concerns regarding OSD compliance, undefined
roles, and legal terminology.

Below is the updated text of the license, followed by a summary of how this
version resolves the previous issues:

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Free Archive License (FARCL-1.0)
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Copyright (c) <YEAR>, <USERNAME>

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a
copy of this digital work, to use, copy, modify, merge, and distribute the
work, subject to the following conditions:

1. FLEXIBLE ACCREDITATION: Attribution must be maintained in a dedicated
CREDITS file, project README, or within the work's metadata. This replaces
the requirement for mandatory inline legal notices within every source file
to facilitate interoperability between different technical formats.

2. OPEN CONVERSION: Users are explicitly authorized to decompile,
transpile, or convert archived assets (including proprietary or legacy
binary formats) into human-readable source code. This is recognized as a
necessary process for digital preservation, technical study, and long-term
interoperability.

3. REDISTRIBUTION: Any public fork or redistribution of this work, in its
original or converted form, must retain the original copyright notice and
identify the work as a FARCL-licensed archive to ensure the integrity of
its origin.

4. SOURCE PERSISTENCE: Source code derived from the conversion of assets
under this license shall inherit these same permissions. This ensures that
data recovered from closed formats remains accessible and cannot be
re-restricted under more hardware-limited or proprietary terms.

DISCLAIMER: THIS WORK IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND,
EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF
MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN
NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM,
DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR
OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE WORK OR THE USE
OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE WORK.

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Summary of Changes & Clarifications:

- Elimination of Undefined Roles: The term "Archivist" has been removed.
The license now uses standard legal subjects ("Person", "User") and
"Username", which is the de facto identity standard in communities like
GitHub/GitLab.

- Compliance with OSD 6 (No Discrimination): The prohibition of binary
distribution has been removed. The license now grants an explicit
additional right for conversion/decompilation, ensuring it does not
restrict fields of endeavor but empowers preservation.

- Justification over Existing Licenses: Unlike MIT or BSD, the FARCL-1.0
explicitly addresses the legal "grey area" of decompiling End-of-Life (EOL)
formats (like .FLA) for the purpose of source code reconstruction. This
provides a specific legal shield for preservationists that general-purpose
licenses lack.

- Expected Adopters: This license is aimed at the Flashpoint Archive
community, the Software Preservation Network, and developers using tools
like Ruffle or OpenFL to migrate legacy assets into open standards.

I believe this revision is now fully aligned with the Open Source
Definition. I look forward to further discussion.

Best regards,

B4uti4GD
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