(Holloway) Chew, Kean Ho's General Public Open Source License

IMPORTANT NOTICE

THIS REPOSITORY IS FULLY DISCONTINUED AND IS ARCHIVED ONLY FOR EDUCATION USE

After obtaining feedbacks from Open Source Initiatives and deep considerations with the author's legal counterparts, this license is decided to be dicontinued as there is already an initiative dealing with copyleft open source license. Moreover, other commericalization licenses are far more important that this license economically.

Hence, the decision is made.

A published general public friendly open-source license with strong copyleft effect originally for (Holloway) Chew, Kean Ho but is now open to all product licensing purposes. This license was referenced from FSF's GPLv2 License and FSF's GPLv3 License but was adopted and re-written from the Open Source Initiative's Apache 2.0 License and Creative Common Licenses as its baseline and applied the following changes:

1. Changed Software to Product so that the license can be expanded to non-software product licensing usage (e.g. graphics, video, manufacturing design, audio, etc) without needing to spin multiple outbound licenses; AND
2. Added license assignment, ratification, and tenure section to specify when and how is the license applied; AND
3. Added version controlled clauses for which version shall be in effect by default; AND
4. No inclusion of software lockdown prohibition (known as "tivoization") clauses where the prohibition itself is perceived as an restrictive right to use and there are valid use cases such as secure initialization/booting using cryptographic digital signature verification; AND
5. Explictly stated that the license overrules any patent, trade secret, or any secrecy's terms and conditions if they are contributed into the Product which nullify their exclusivities. The Contributor that does this knowingly or unknowingly shall bear full responsibility including legal actions from the owning stakeholders; AND
6. Expanded grant clauses into Creative Commons' rights categories; AND
7. Added artifical intelligence training dataset clauses; AND
8. Added Sensitive Data warranty and liability coverage; AND
9. Added global vendors (e.g. datacenter) Sensitive Data limitation of liability; AND
10. Added force manjure limitation of liability; AND
11. Added global vendors (e.g. datacenter) Sensitive Data limitation of liability; AND
12. Added judiciary minimal damage values limitation of liability; AND
13. Added geographical indicator coverage; AND
14. Added protected geographical indicator coverage; AND
15. Added protected designation indicator coverage; AND
16. Added industrial design use coverage; AND
17. Added integrated circuit layout design use coverage; AND
18. Added trade secret use coverage.

WARNING: When in doubts OR without absolute certainty, stay clear of this license.

Version Controlled

This repository is version controlled using semantic versioning definitions where:

1. the MAJOR version denotes major legal changes; AND
2. the MINOR version denotes minor changes without altering the legal implication side of things such as but not limited to grammar correction, fonts, typo, and etc; AND
3. the PATCH version denotes the repository management changes such as but not limited to new language addition, updating README.md, and etc.

License Nature

To use this license for your product licensing, you MUST, in layman terms, consider the following as your recipient perpectives:

1. You're only allowed to use for personal deployment as long as you:
   1. SHALL AND STRICTLY REQUIRED to attribute all the copyright holders; AND
   2. SHALL accept that the creators are not responsible for anything of any kind; AND
   3. SHALL retain the same copyright notices and effects of the product you use, be it in its raw form (e.g. source codes) or its produced form (compiled software binary files); AND
   4. SHALL NOT use the creators' name, brand, and trademark without their written notices for any endorsement of your pursue; AND
   5. SHALL upstream all your changes in source back to all the copyright owners all the way to the source of origin if you use any content not designated as "Externally Usable Interface" on its content licensing notice; AND
   6. SHALL NOT need to upstream anything if you strictly and only use the designated "Externally Usable Interface" with the product; AND
   7. SHALL bear FULL repsonsibilities for upstreaming sensitive and registered data like personal data, patent, industrial design, IC design, etc as this license will force them to open up and eventually nullify their exclusivities or confidentiality (site-note: without an IP lawyer, just don't include); AND
   8. SHALL have all your changes and contents be forced to be re-licensed under this license (the copyleft effect) in a non-negociable way; AND
2. You're only allowed to use for commercial deployment as long as you:
   1. SHALL AND STRICTLY REQUIRED to attribute all the copyright holders; AND
   2. SHALL accept that the creators are not responsible for anything of any kind; AND
   3. SHALL retain the same copyright notices and effects of the product you use, be it in its raw form (e.g. source codes) or its produced form (compiled software binary files); AND
   4. SHALL NOT use the creators' name, brand, and trademark without their written notices for any endorsement of your pursue; AND
   5. SHALL upstream all your changes in source back to all the copyright owners all the way to the source of origin if you use any content not designated as "Externally Usable Interface" on its content licensing notice; AND
   6. SHALL NOT need to upstream anything if you strictly and only use the designated "Externally Usable Interface" with the product; AND
   7. SHALL bear FULL repsonsibilities for upstreaming sensitive and registered data like personal data, patent, industrial design, IC design, etc as this license will force them to open up and eventually nullify their exclusivities or confidentiality (site-note: without an IP lawyer, just don't include); AND
   8. SHALL have all your changes and contents be forced to be re-licensed under this license (the copyleft effect) in a non-negociable way; AND
3. You're only allowed to edit/modify as long as you:
   1. SHALL AND STRICTLY REQUIRED to attribute all the copyright holders; AND
   2. SHALL accept that the creators are not responsible for anything of any kind; AND
   3. SHALL retain the same copyright notices and effects of the product you use, be it in its raw form (e.g. source codes) or its produced form (compiled software binary files); AND
   4. SHALL NOT use the creators' name, brand, and trademark without their written notices for any endorsement of your pursue; AND
   5. SHALL upstream all your changes in source back to all the copyright owners all the way to the source of origin if you use any content not designated as "Externally Usable Interface" on its content licensing notice; AND
   6. SHALL bear FULL repsonsibilities for upstreaming sensitive and registered data like personal data, patent, industrial design, IC design, etc as this license will force them to open up and eventually nullify their exclusivities or confidentiality (site-note: without an IP lawyer, just don't include); AND
   7. SHALL have all your changes and contents be forced to be re-licensed under this license (the copyleft effect) in a non-negociable way; AND
4. You're only allowed to remix/remaster as long as you:
   1. SHALL AND STRICTLY REQUIRED to attribute all the copyright holders; AND
   2. SHALL accept that the creators are not responsible for anything of any kind; AND
   3. SHALL retain the same copyright notices and effects of the product you use, be it in its raw form (e.g. source codes) or its produced form (compiled software binary files); AND
   4. SHALL NOT use the creators' name, brand, and trademark without their written notices for any endorsement of your pursue; AND
   5. SHALL upstream all your changes in source back to all the copyright owners all the way to the source of origin if you use any content not designated as "Externally Usable Interface" on its content licensing notice; AND
   6. SHALL bear FULL repsonsibilities for upstreaming sensitive and registered data like personal data, patent, industrial design, IC design, etc as this license will force them to open up and eventually nullify their exclusivities or confidentiality (site-note: without an IP lawyer, just don't include); AND
   7. SHALL have all your changes and contents be forced to be re-licensed under this license (the copyleft effect) in a non-negociable way; AND
5. You're only allowed to distribute as long as you:
   1. SHALL AND STRICTLY REQUIRED to attribute all the copyright holders; AND
   2. SHALL accept that the creators are not responsible for anything of any kind; AND
   3. SHALL retain the same copyright notices and effects of the product you use, be it in its raw form (e.g. source codes) or its produced form (compiled software binary files); AND
   4. SHALL NOT use the creators' name, brand, and trademark without their written notices for any endorsement of your pursue; AND
   5. SHALL upstream all your changes in source back to all the copyright owners all the way to the source of origin if you use any content not designated as "Externally Usable Interface" on its content licensing notice; AND
   6. SHALL NOT need to upstream anything if you strictly and only use the designated "Externally Usable Interface" with the product; AND
   7. SHALL bear FULL repsonsibilities for upstreaming sensitive and registered data like personal data, patent, industrial design, IC design, etc as this license will force them to open up and eventually nullify their exclusivities or confidentiality (site-note: without an IP lawyer, just don't include); AND
   8. SHALL have all your changes and contents be forced to be re-licensed under this license (the copyleft effect) in a non-negociable way; AND
6. You're only allowed to re-distribute as long as you:
   1. SHALL AND STRICTLY REQUIRED to attribute all the copyright holders; AND
   2. SHALL accept that the creators are not responsible for anything of any kind; AND
   3. SHALL retain the same copyright notices and effects of the product you use, be it in its raw form (e.g. source codes) or its produced form (compiled software binary files); AND
   4. SHALL NOT use the creators' name, brand, and trademark without their written notices for any endorsement of your pursue; AND
   5. SHALL upstream all your changes in source back to all the copyright owners all the way to the source of origin if you use any content not designated as "Externally Usable Interface" on its content licensing notice; AND
   6. SHALL NOT need to upstream anything if you strictly and only use the designated "Externally Usable Interface" with the product; AND
   7. SHALL bear FULL repsonsibilities for upstreaming sensitive and registered data like personal data, patent, industrial design, IC design, etc as this license will force them to open up and eventually nullify their exclusivities or confidentiality (site-note: without an IP lawyer, just don't include); AND
   8. SHALL have all your changes and contents be forced to be re-licensed under this license (the copyleft effect) in a non-negociable way; AND
7. You're only allowed to perform any miscellaneous rights not mentioned above as long as you:
   1. SHALL AND STRICTLY REQUIRED to attribute all the copyright holders; AND
   2. SHALL accept that the creators are not responsible for anything of any kind; AND
   3. SHALL retain the same copyright notices and effects of the product you use, be it in its raw form (e.g. source codes) or its produced form (compiled software binary files); AND
   4. SHALL NOT use the creators' name, brand, and trademark without their written notices for any endorsement of your pursue; AND
   5. SHALL upstream all your changes in source back to all the copyright owners all the way to the source of origin if you use any content not designated as "Externally Usable Interface" on its content licensing notice; AND
   6. SHALL NOT need to upstream anything if you strictly and only use the designated "Externally Usable Interface" with the product; AND
   7. SHALL bear FULL repsonsibilities for upstreaming sensitive and registered data like personal data, patent, industrial design, IC design, etc as this license will force them to open up and eventually nullify their exclusivities or confidentiality (site-note: without an IP lawyer, just don't include); AND
   8. SHALL have all your changes and contents be forced to be re-licensed under this license (the copyleft effect) in a non-negociable way.

Reference & Download Source

The latest license files shall be referenced and be downloadable from:

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13825030

License Notice

The following are the license notice within the supported languages:

English

Note that the clause within the curly brace {...} is optional and only retain it (by removing the braces only) if the content is to be designated as an Externally Usable Interface so the copyleft effect is limited until herein. Otherwise, remove the entire clause.

Copyright [YEAR] [FULL_LEGAL_NAME] [CONTACT_LIKE_EMAIL_ADDRESS]


Licensed under (Holloway) Chew, Kean Ho’s General Public Open Source License
(the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with the
License. You may obtain a copy of the License at

                  https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13825030

{The content (the “Content”) herein is designated as
“Externally Usable Interface” where its copyleft effect shall cease its
propagation and be bounded and be limited to herein. You’re free to use
or integrate from the Content herein to interact with the Product without
being subjected to the License’s copyleft effect as long as you solely and
only use the Externally Usable Interfaces entirely to interact with the
Product.}

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