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The KILLGPL License
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(KILLGPL: Incompatible with Libraries Linked to the GPL) | |
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"Free software" should be just that - free. Extreme copy-left licenses | |
such as the GPL, GPL2, GPL3, etc, and their users have twisted the | |
term "free" to meet their own anti-business, anti-closed source agendas by | |
forcing licensees to relicense their software under the same "viral" terms | |
and by forcing licensees to distribute sources with binary distributions. | |
This license stands in protest of such licenses in an attempt to protect | |
the freedoms that extreme copy-left licenses have been taking away from | |
software developers for far too long. | |
Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining | |
a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the | |
"Software"), to deal in the Software with only one restriction: no part of | |
it may be included in software projects that are distributed under "viral" | |
licensing schemes like those found in the GPL, GPL2, GPL3, etc. | |
There are no further usage restrictions. Licensees are encouraged to use | |
this software in both open and closed source applications, so long as no | |
part of the combined work is licensed under extreme copy-left licenses. | |
The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included | |
in all copies or substantial portions of the Software. Note - this notice | |
does not have to appear in YOUR code, but must remain intact in the parts | |
licensed under the KILLGPL. | |
THE SOFTWARE 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 | |
SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE. |
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