----- Original message ----- From: "Clark C. Evans" <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Date: Sun, 04 Dec 2011 13:38:20 -0500 Subject: a Free Island Public License?
Please find for your amusement and hopeful commentary a different take on what it means to be Free Software. FREE ISLAND PUBLIC LICENSE This software is licensed for any purpose excepting the right to make publicly available derived works which depend exclusively upon non-free software. So long as this copyright and license are included in all substantial copies of this work you may: 1. Publicly copy and use verbatim copies of this work including public distribution and performance. 2. Privately deal with this work in any way you wish, including internal usage, copying, and modification of this work. You may also make publicly available via distribution or public performance any Derived Work only if the following conditions are met: 1. the preferred source code for the Derived Work must be made freely available under this license; 2. the Derived Work must pass the Free Island test. By "Derived Work" we mean a modified copy or adaptation of this work or a separate work such as a plug-in, protocol adapter, or wrapper which is designed to have intimate interactions with this work's operational details, or interfaces. A Derived Work passes the "Free Island" test if it could be prepared, modified, compiled, tested, installed, and operated in a manner advertised or expected using only commodity hardware, Free Software, this software, and the Derived Work itself. In particular, the Derived Work fails the test if it in any way depends upon remote network interaction or interfaces to works that do not have a Free Software implementation. By Free Software we mean any software which is readily available to the public without fee and this license, any license approved by the Open Source Initiative or any license considered free by the Free Software Foundation. A safe harbor for passing the Free Island test is if the Derived Work is fully usable as intended when compiled & installed on a Debian virtual machine using software only from its 'free' distribution and KVM. If the Derived Work was created for interaction with other works, then it must be fully testable in conjunction with a Free Software alternative of this work as available on this virtual machine. THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY AUTHOR AND CONTRIBUTORS "AS IS" AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, AGAINST INFRINGEMENT, TITLE AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL AUTHOR OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
