Hello everyone.

I am Max from Donghua University.

I am developing an open-source project that is intended to be distributed 
across boundaries. However laws is different from one country to another, hence 
licenses may need to be localised appropriately. For example, few existing open 
source license work 100% issue-free in China simply because it is not in 
Chinese language.

There is a project, Creative Commons, that focuses on providing free license 
for art, music and works alike. They tackled the localisation issue well, by 
providing localised licenses that is interchangeable with each other, even in 
the copyleft variants.However Creative Commons does not work well with 
software. I can CC license my documentations but not the software itself.

I am considering expanding some existing license to allow the same localisation 
capability, and provide some localised versions of it. To me, I decided to 
expand 3-clause BSD license. I have started a GitHub repository 
<https://github/xcvista/muskiPL> to host the development of the expanded 
license. I will commit this license to review after it is finalised.

I would like to know your opinions on a localisable open source license.

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