Free Archive License 1.0

Free Archive License (FARCL-1.0) ============================================================ Copyright (c) <YEAR>, <USERNAME> Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this digital work, to use, copy, modify, merge, and distribute the work, subject to the following conditions: 1. FLEXIBLE ACCREDITATION: Attribution must be maintained in a dedicated CREDITS file, project README, or within the work's metadata. This replaces the requirement for mandatory inline legal notices within every source file to facilitate interoperability between different technical formats. 2. OPEN CONVERSION: Users are explicitly authorized to decompile, transpile, or convert archived assets (including proprietary or legacy binary formats) into human-readable source code. This is recognized as a necessary process for digital preservation, technical study, and long-term interoperability. 3. REDISTRIBUTION: Any public fork or redistribution of this work, in its original or converted form, must retain the original copyright notice and identify the work as a FARCL-licensed archive to ensure the integrity of its origin. 4. SOURCE PERSISTENCE: Source code derived from the conversion of assets under this license shall inherit these same permissions. This ensures that data recovered from closed formats remains accessible and cannot be re-restricted under more hardware-limited or proprietary terms. DISCLAIMER: THIS WORK IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE WORK OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE WORK. ============================================================ Summary of Changes & Clarifications: - Elimination of Undefined Roles: The term "Archivist" has been removed. The license now uses standard legal subjects ("Person", "User") and "Username", which is the de facto identity standard in communities like GitHub/GitLab. - Compliance with OSD 6 (No Discrimination): The prohibition of binary distribution has been removed. The license now grants an explicit additional right for conversion/decompilation, ensuring it does not restrict fields of endeavor but empowers preservation. - Justification over Existing Licenses: Unlike MIT or BSD, the FARCL-1.0 explicitly addresses the legal "grey area" of decompiling End-of-Life (EOL) formats (like .FLA) for the purpose of source code reconstruction. This provides a specific legal shield for preservationists that general-purpose licenses lack. - Expected Adopters: This license is aimed at the Flashpoint Archive community, the Software Preservation Network, and developers using tools like Ruffle or OpenFL to migrate legacy assets into open standards. I believe this revision is now fully aligned with the Open Source Definition. I look forward to further discussion. Best regards, B4uti4GD