[License-review] Hooyami License Version 1.1 for Approval

nicklaus yap nickyap42 at gmail.com
Fri Jul 28 17:15:26 UTC 2017


Rationale: The license serve the purpose to allow better clarification on
relicensing in open source project

Distinguish:
Compare to MIT license, Hooyami license has support for patent claim.
Compare to BSD-3-clause, Hooyami license state clearly the user right.
Compare to GPL-2.0, Hooyami license allow user to make modification to
their source code without needing to be redistributed in the same license
as copyleft. Only part that has not been modify need to be under the same
license.

Proliferation category:
I would recommend Hooyami License to be under Licenses that are redundant
with more popular licenses because some of the terms and condition may be
same with other open source license.
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Hooyami License 
Version 1.1, July 2017

Any person obtaining a copy of this software and it associated documentation files (the "Software"), are given the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, sublicense, publish, distribute, and/or sell copies of the Software, provided that the following terms and conditions are met:

Definitions
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"Licensor" shall mean the copyright owner or entity authorized by the copyright owner that is granting the License

"legal entity" shall mean an association, corporation, partnership, proprietorship, trust, or individual that has legal standing

"source code" shall mean computer instructions written using a programming language that is modifiable

"binary form" shall mean any form resulting from mechanical transformation or translation of a source code

"modification" shall mean change made to a part that is different from the original

"You" shall mean an individual or Legal Entity exercising permission granted 

"License" shall mean the right given to You to do something

"work" shall mean the work of authorship, whether in source code or in binary form, made available under this License with the copyright notice included in or attached to the work (an example is provided below on how to attach a notice to the work). 

"contributor" shall mean Licensor and any individual or Legal Entity contribution that has been received by Licensor and subsequently incorporated within the work.

"contribution(s)" shall mean any work of authorship, including the original version of the Work and any modifications or additions to that Work or Derivative Works thereof, that is intentionally submitted to Licensor for inclusion in the Work by the copyright owner or by an individual or Legal Entity authorized to submit on behalf of the copyright owner.

Redistribution
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1. Redistributions of source code without "modification" under this "License" must be made available under the same "License" which is Hooyami License. Unless permission is granted by the "copyright owner" of that "work" to "You", only "modification" made to the "work" may be redistributed under a different "License".

2. Redistributions of source code under this "License" must retain the below notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.

3. Redistributions in binary form under this "License" must must reproduce the below notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.

Copyright <YEAR> <COPYRIGHT HOLDER>
Licensed under the Hooyami License, Version 1.1
You may not use this file except in compliance with Hooyami License, Version 1.1

THE SOFTWARE 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 COPYRIGHT HOLDERS OR CONTRIBUTOR 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 SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.

Grant of Patent License
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4. Each "contributor" hereby grants to "you" a perpetual, worldwide, non-exclusive, no-charge, royalty-free, irrevocable patent license to make, have made, use, offer to sell, sell, import, and otherwise transfer the "work", where such license applies only to those patent claims licensable by such "contributor" that are necessarily infringed by their "contribution(s)" alone or by combination of their "contribution(s)" with the Work to which such "contribution(s)" was submitted. If You institute patent litigation against any entity (including a cross-claim or counterclaim in a lawsuit) alleging that the "work" or a "contribution(s)" incorporated within the "work" constitutes direct or contributory patent infringement, then any patent licenses granted to "You" under this License for that "work" shall terminate as of the date such litigation is filed.

Extra terms and conditions
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5. The name of the copyright holder and the names of its contributors must not be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software without specific prior written permission.

END OF TERMS AND CONDITIONS

Attach the following notice to apply Hooyami License to your work. If the following notice is attached to your work already you can ignore the below notice:
Replace the angle bracket "<>" with your own identifying information.
Copyright <YEAR> <COPYRIGHT HOLDER>
Licensed under the Hooyami License, Version 1.1
You may not use this file except in compliance with Hooyami License, Version 1.1

THE SOFTWARE 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 COPYRIGHT HOLDERS OR CONTRIBUTOR 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 SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.


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