<div dir="ltr">Thank You, Engel Nyst!<div><br></div><div>I am going to edit the license in order to fix this and other defects.</div><div><br></div><div>Best regards.</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">2015-01-09 14:36 GMT+01:00 Engel Nyst <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:engel.nyst@gmail.com" target="_blank">engel.nyst@gmail.com</a>></span>:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hello Valentino,<br>
<br>
Just one point on your license.<br>
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On 12/30/2014 01:39 PM, Valentino Giudice wrote:<br>
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> You must therefore delete any copy of this work and on any derivative<br>
> work you have.<br>
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</span>I don't think the deletion of any copy of the work should be a result of<br>
termination of the copyright license.<br>
<br>
Copyright covers actions like copying, distributing copies, modifying<br>
the work.<br>
<br>
It doesn't cover executing the software, or "using" it.<br>
<br>
In Europe it doesn't even cover giving to someone else the physical<br>
copy legally in your possession, now or in twenty years. If you acquire<br>
a cd with the software from a store, the copyright owner of the work on<br>
your cd cannot make you throw it to the trash. It's your cd. And since<br>
such actions, executing the software you got, or keeping your physical<br>
copy, or giving it to someone else are supposed to be beyond the reach<br>
of copyright, they are supposed to be beyond the reach of a copyright<br>
license.<br>
<br>
Similarly, you can think of a book. Once you bought it, it's your book.<br>
You may get no right to copy or distribute publicly copies of it (by<br>
default), but you always own that physical book. Distributing other<br>
copies and reading your own copy are two different and unrelated things.<br>
The publisher's "license" doesn't force you to burn your book.<br>
<br>
(unless you didn't acquire physical ownership, that is, you borrowed or<br>
rented it. Open source software - and in fact a lot of proprietary<br>
software as well - are not borrowed nor rented, though.)<br>
<br>
It may be more muddy in some part of the law, but not in open source<br>
licensing. There is no open source license that attempts to force you to<br>
delete your copy. There is no open source license that attempts to limit<br>
ANY private use (in colloquial parlance) for any purpose.<br>
<br>
I suggest to consider it carefully and remove the requirement to delete<br>
the copy from your license. The violators of your terms will no longer<br>
have rights like distribute/copy/modify. However, once they get the<br>
work, they can use it indefinitely.<br>
<br>
If you change your license on this point, you may note that it implies<br>
more changes all throughout the text. For example "owning a copy"<br>
doesn't require you to accept the license (in the preamble). "Using"<br>
doesn't either.<br>
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> It is inspired to the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported<br>
<br>
</span>CC-BY 3.0 doesn't require you to delete your copy.<br>
<br>
The grants in section 3 are those that may terminate in section 7a. That<br>
enumeration doesn't contain 'reading' or 'listening' or otherwise making<br>
use of the copy in your possession, it contains only particular actions:<br>
reproduce, distribute, publicly perform or create and reproduce<br>
adaptations.<br>
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<br>
--<br>
Oracle corollary to Hanlon's razor:<br>
Never attribute to stupidity what can be adequately explained by malice.<br>
(~ adapted from Adam Borowski)<br>
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