Well, I finally got my office chair and put it together. There was a problem with the Amazon order and they shipped it to somewhere in Florida by accident, so I decided to just go to a brick-and-mortar store. I got a chair from Staples and I spent the entire afternoon putting it together. I’ve also been working on trying to get my old Macbook fixed so that I can get the data off of it, since there’s a lot of code, images and multimedia files, and documents that I haven’t had access to in nearly a year.
Needless to say I’ve been very busy today and haven’t had time to write anything too involved, so this time I thought I’d share the new software license that I’ve concocted. I call it the Michael Warren Free Software License. It’s an open source license designed with a single goal: to protect the licensed software, its authors, and its users from people with malicious intent. It’s the twenty-first century. Keeping software open source isn’t the main priority anymore. Protecting the software and its users and contributors from New World Order elites bent on tracking people’s every move and greedy corporate moguls who want to eliminate competition with anti-competitive patent suits is far more important in today’s world.
So without further ado, here is Version 1.0 of the license in its entirety. If anyone has any advice on how to improve it, please let me know in the comments.
Terms of the Michael Warren Free Software License:
Definitions:
- In the following document, the terms "Michael Warren FSL" and "FSL"
both refer to the Michael Warren Free Software License, i.e. the
document you are reading right now.
- In the following document, the term "Micheal Warren" refers to the
author of this document and the owner of the Pastebin account to which
the original copy of this document was posted (/u/AnonymousNamefag).
- In the following document, the terms "FSL-licensed software" and
"FSL software" refer to software released under the Michael Warren FSL.
- In the following document, the term "non-FSL software" refers to
software not released under the Michael Warren FSL.
- In the following document, the term "author" refers to the individual
or legal entity under whose name a given piece of FSL-licensed software
is released.
- In the following document, the term "contributor" refers to any
individual or legal entity who was an author of a given piece of
FSL-licensed software or any piece of FSL software that that software
was derived from, either directly or indirectly.
- In the following document, the terms "telemetry" and "surveillance"
refer to any method of covertly collecting any data on any individual
using a piece of FSL-licensed software unless such data was explicitly
and intentionally provided by that individual.
Sections:
1. This document is a binding legal contract between all parties involved
in the production, modification, distribution, redistribution, or
use of any software released under the terms of this license, or
in the combination of FSL-licensed software with other software.
Anyone who creates, modifies, distributes, redistributes, uses, or
combines any such software implicitly agrees to the terms of this
contract in doing so.
2. All software released under the Micheal Warren FSL is provided AS IS
with absolutely no warranty, not even the implied warranty of fitness
for a particular application. Neither Michael Warren nor any author
or contributor to any FSL-licensed software may be held responsible
for any damages that may result from use or misuse of FSL-licensed
software. An FSL contributor may provide a warranty, technical
support, or additional guarantees on top of the initial agreement, but
no warranty or liability is implied unless the contributor explicitly
provides for it.
3. All software released under the Michael Warren FSL is open source.
The source code does not have to be provided with the software, but
it does have to be made publicly available and easily accessible.
Additionally, this license prohibits any use of intentional obfuscation
techniques designed to prevent reverse-engineering of FSL software.
4. This license prohibits any use of telemetry or surveillance for
any purpose - commercial, legal, or otherwise. Additionally, all
contributors, authors, and users of FSL software must know that if
any entity attempts to pressure them to install backdoors or other
surveillance techniques in FSL software, then they are legally required
to refuse such demands, and any compliance with such demands amounts
to breach of contract.
5. Anyone who modifies or rereleases a piece of FSL software must give
credit to any previous authors or contributors to that software
whenever possible. All information regarding the identities of those
who contributed must be preserved, unless such information includes
personally identifiable information (PII) that could be used to
inflict harm on one or more of those individuals. In essence, the
entire chain of custody of the software must be preserved.
6. FSL software may be combined with non-FSL software under certain
conditions, which will be detailed in the following paragraph.
If such combination occurs, then only the FSL-released portion of the
product is affected by the terms of this license. FSL software may be
combined with closed-source software, as long as the source code for
the FSL-released portion is made public. However, FSL software may
not under any circumstances be combined with software that violates
Section 4 of this license.
7. Michael Warren has final say on any confusions that may arise regarding
the interpretation of any clause of the present document. Furthermore,
Michael Warren reserves the right to modify this document at any time,
without notice, in order to deal with any unanticipated legal or other
issues that may arise with regards to this license or any software
released under its terms.
