I. DEFINITIONS:
1. LICENSE shall mean an open source (e.g., free software) license
which allows:
a) Any person or entity to combine the licensed product with
anything else and release the resulting combination so
long as he/they:
i) Release it under a different name; and
ii) Do at least one of the following:
a. Accompany it with source code which does not
alter any of the notices of copyright or
authorship, although it is acceptable to add
to such notices;
b. Accompany it with a statement of where source
can be obtained for no cost greater than
reasonable media and duplication fees;
c. Accompany it with a statement of where source
may be downloaded without charge;
d. Accompany it with the statement:
"Made with OPENCARD. For more information,
see <http://upf.uqam.ca/OpenCard/>."; or
e. Accompany it with the statement:
"Portions based on OPENCARD. For more
information, see
<http://upf.uqam.ca/OpenCard/>."
Any statement required to be made by this section
shall be placed in a prominent place in both the
software and (if applicable) the documentation.
b) Any person to fork. Conditions for forking shall be the
same as 1. Forking may include any utilization of any
amount of the source code.
LICENSE shall be perpetual, non-exclusive, and irrevocable.
2. OPENCARD shall mean a certain product being created by OODL to be a new
open-source, rapid application development (RAD) tool with an
easy-to-use, Macintosh- and xCard-style interface and an English-like
xTalk scripting language.
3. MAINTAINER shall mean the person in charge of OpenCard. His word shall
be the Last Word (except for forking). He shall be chosen
a specified below. [Note this is intended for when we have
official versions]
II. Proposal
1. I propose that there shall be a single MAINTAINER, to be shall be
elected by the majority of the members of the OODL list and liable to
removal by the same fraction. I propose that any single decision or group
of decisions may be reversed by a majority vote, except for the provisions
of this document, once adopted, may be modified or extended to the extent
allowed by applicable law by a vote of two-thirds in the affirmative.
2. I propose that OPENCARD shall be distributed under LICENSE.
3. I propose that any person writing code for inclusion in OPENCARD must
allow its inclusion in OPENCARD under LICENSE.
4. I propose that MAINTAINER shall gather code under LICENSE and combine
them to form OPENCARD, a derived work to which he shall own the copyright.
I further propose that MAINTAINER or his designee shall write or arrange to
have written any necessary code to glue together different parts, and to
have that code released under LICENSE.
5. I propose that the final, official name of OPENCARD shall be designated
with the trademark symbol, �, and be a trademark to be owned by MAINTAINER.
III. Legal Safeguards
1. I propose that there shall be two people elected by OODL to enter into a
contract with MAINTAINER that states that in the event of his removal from
office and the election of a successor he shall transfer legal possession of
the OPENCARD trademark and the OPENCARD copyright to the new MAINTAINER.
2. LICENSE shall include a standard-issue blanket disclaimer.
