YAOSL - Yet Another Open Source License v1.01

[Alex Nicolaou]

I am still soliciting feedback on this license. I've attempted to modify
it to address Bruce Perens' comments regarding return of modifications
and binary distributions.

I believe this is now license now fully conforms to the OSD, and am
looking for comments of all kinds including whether you'd choose to use
this license for your own projects and why or why not.


thanks,

alex

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SOS - Simple Open Source License version 1.01

Copyright (C) 1999, Alex Nicolaou. Distribution of verbatim copies of
this license is permitted. All other rights reserved.

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all supporting files, provided that you do so without any charge.

2. You may charge for distributing complete and verbatim copies of this
software with all supporting files, provided that you conspicuously
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3. You may modify your copies of the software, provided that you either

    a) publicly distribute your changes as a source code patch against a
       currently available version of the software,
or
    b) return your modifications to the copyright holder for
incorporation
       into the next publicly available version of the software.

You may not distribute versions of the software with your patch applied,
although you may include your patches in a subdirectory of the software
specifically provided for this purpose, or provide the software in an
archive format designed to accommodate and apply your patches during
installation on the end user's computer.

If you have satisfied 3a or 3b above, you may distribute binary
versions of the software built with your modifications provided that
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that the distribution is based on open source software and includes
directions on how to acquire the original software.

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