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👤 Moritz Maxeiner🗓️ First Submitted: 2019-08-03📅 3 days💬 12 Events
Latest event👤 Nicholas Matthew Neft Weinstock📅 2019-08-06Discuss
Suggests adopting the MPLv2 definition of 'Modifications' to clearly define the scope of required publication.Full Text
Contribution Public License 1.0 (Draft)
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*Copyright Notice:* ? `Year and Copyright Holder'
*Source Notice:* `Primary location of source code'
You may use and distribute this software without restriction, as long
as you fulfill all of the following obligations:
1. Ensure everyone who receives a copy of this software from you, in
any form, also receives the text of this license and the copyright
and source notices above.
2. License each change you make to this software under this license,
publish it in its original form through a freely accessible
distribution system commonly used for similar changes, and ensure
reasonable availability of it via one such publication for as long
as you use or distribute this software with it, but no less than 30
days.
3. Do not make any legal claim against anyone for infringing any
patent claim they would infringe by using or distributing this
software.
You are granted a perpetual, universal, non-exclusive,
no-charge, royalty-free, irrevocable (except by not
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and distribute this software without restriction.
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no-charge, royalty-free, irrevocable (except by not
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patent claims licensable by any copyright holder your use
or distribution of this software would otherwise infringe.
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including any general, special, incidental, or
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operate with any other software, hardware, or wetware),
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