IMPORTANT NOTICE
This license was drafted by a software developer based on his past experiences across software, service, and agriculture industries.
Like all legal documents, YOU MUST ALWAYS ENGAGE A LAWYER TO VALIDATE ITS FEASIBILITY.
NEVER ASSUME WHEN DEALING WITH LEGAL TRANSACTIONS.
A published baseline proprietary license targeting publicly obtainable, commercial, and proprietor product licensing needs. This license adopted from Open Source Initiative's Apache 2.0 License software license and Creative Common Licenses product license as its baseline and applied the following changes matching the current timeline:
- Changed
Software
toProduct
so that the license can be expanded to non-software product licensing uses (e.g. graphics, video, manufacturing design, audio, etc) without needing to spin multiple outbound licenses; AND - Added license assignment, ratification, and tenure section to specify when and how is the license applied; AND
- Added license termination section to specify when the license is matured; AND
- Added version controlled clause for continuous improvement; AND
- Added sensitive data management and security coverage; AND
- Structured known Rights to Use sections for easier parsing and referencing
(based on
Creative Common Licenses
); AND - Added non-contact
Rights to Use
clauses (example: as dataset for training AI); AND - Added force manjure limitation of liabilities; AND
- Added minimal agreed judiciary damage; AND
- Added geographical indicator coverage; AND
- Added designation indicator coverage; AND
- Added protected geographical indicator coverage; AND
- Added protected designation indicator coverage; AND
- Added integrated circuit layout design use coverage; AND
- Added industrial design use coverage; AND
- Added trade secret use coverage; AND
- Added trademark use coverage; AND
- Applied plainlanguage.gov specifications; AND
- Re-written from scratch by human with the only input provision assistance from Claude AI; AND
- Addressed the modified and derived Products' renaming grey area issue; AND
- Added statutory time limit for any legal claim; AND
- Added QR code notice type for space constrained product display.
This repository was formerly known as the following but was renamed for consistency purposes:
(Holloway) Chew, Kean Ho's Proprietary License 1.0
This project was initiated for 4 reasons:
- As of year 2024, there isn't really a proprietary license for public use; AND
- Most non-commercial licenses are out-of-date and does not implement automatic update to the license clauses aside from point-releasing; AND
- Most commercial licenses are specific to its product or service rendering not re-usable; AND
- Most licenses are not clear about guidelines and a lot of the licenses are too vague in its obligation coverage.
This license is version controlled using semantic versioning definitions where:
- the
MAJOR
version denotes major legal changes; AND - 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 - the
PATCH
version denotes the repository management changes such as but not limited to new language addition, updatingREADME.md
, and etc.
By default, the license is always using the latest and greatest. If you want a specific version, download that license file and include it into your product repository.
To comply with PlainLanguage.gov, You have to read the license files directly. It must be easily readable for any general public audience without assistance.
If you cannot parse or understand any part of the license, that means the license has not fully achieve the guideline yet. In that case, please file a query issue.
These are the official stewards of the license:
- (Holloway) Chew, Kean Ho - principal author and reviewer.
These are the folks who indirectly improve this license upto a considerable quality either by resources sharing or scanning:
- Bruce Payne - for relentlessly providing license drafting guidances and emotional positivity.
- Anthropic's Claude AI - for providing a lot of great inputs for me to fine-tune clauses and clues for hunting for actual legal resources.
- Chua, Yee Soong - for guiding over Malaysia's legal acumen and resources.
- Limitations Act of Malaysia
- United States' PlainLanguage.GOV
- MYIPO
- USPTO
- EUIPO
- CNIPA
- BSD Zero Clause License
- MIT License
- BSD 3 Clauses Clear License
- BSD 2 Clauses + Patent License
- Open Source Initiative's Apache 2.0 License
- Creative Common Licenses
This workspace and repository is published under Creative Common CC-BY-ND 4.0.
The latest license files shall be referenced and be downloadable from:
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13767361
The following are the license notice within the supported languages:
Copyright [YEAR] [FULL_LEGAL_NAME] [CONTACT_LIKE_EMAIL_ADDRESS]
Licensed under (Holloway) Chew, Kean Ho’s Proprietary License (the "License").
You must comply with the license to use the content. Get the License at:
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13767361
DO NOT SOURCE, USE, READ, MODIFY, REPRODUCE, DISTRIBUTE, RE-DISTRIBUTE,
REVERSE ENGINEER, OR ANY OTHER ACTIONS WITH ANY PART OF THE CONTENT WITHOUT
WRITTEN AND RATIFIED CONSENT from the copyright owners, unless the license
explicitly allowing it.
OR label the QR code