THE GLOBAL OPEN SOURCE ANTI-LAWSUIT LICENSE (GOSALL)
By downloading, installing, or using any software covered by this license,
you and the business that employs you (hereafter collectively referred to as "you")
agree to the following conditions. No conditions are dependant on previous entries
unless specifically stated.
- You will NEVER EVER, UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCE sue an open source developer for
ANYTHING, or attempt to force them to pay you for anything.
- If you use 1 or more lines of source code from the covered program in one of
yours, then you must make the complete source code for the program (and for any
custom utilities used in the development of it) freely available to anyone, and
credit the original developer for the used code. The source code must be made
available by at least one of the following methods: (a) download via the internet
for free (can be included with the program, or separately); (b) on a physical
distribution media (such as a CD), for only the cost of the media and shipping;
(c) included on the media for the registered version of the program.
- If you hold any patents, you must make the complete details of them freely
available on the internet, and not charge anyone for use of them.
- You MUST NOT implement any features in your software or hardware that
intentionally inhibit consumers from doing what they want to do with their own
computers. If you have already implemented such features, you must remove them and
either: (a) make a patch to remove the offending features and have it freely available
to download; or (b) provide a free exchange of the product containing the offending
features for an equivalent or better one without the offending features.
- You may not include any form of copy or crack protection, any means of expiring, or disabled features
(except for currently unwritten ones) in any software covered in section 2.
- You must make ALL information you have access to freely available to the public via the internet.
By agreeing to these conditions once, they will apply to you and the business that
employs you or the rest of your life and for the rest of the business's life. If the
business is bought by another, then the buyer automatically agrees to these conditions.
In short, this is a LIFETIME agreement for both you AND the business that employs you.
Putting your software under this license
Any software covered by this license MUST be available free of charge (or for only the
cost of the media and shipping), and must not include any form of copy or crack protection,
any means of expiring, or disabled features (except for currently unwritten ones).
In order to cover your program by this license, you will need to do the following in
addition to the previously mentioned points.
- State in your program and/or in the documentation that the program is covered by this
license.
- Include a copy of this license with your program. A text file of the license in the
program's install directory is sufficent.
- Make the source code available for free and distribute it with the program.
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