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-This is a proposal for a Charity Software License.
-== Intent of the License ==
-The intent of the license is to offer an alternative to open source software as specified by the OSI open source definition.
-Software licensed under the CSL can be made available in source code but there is no obligation to do so.
-The software is made available with guarantees about the use of revenue generated by software sales.
-The license will include a list of trusted third parties, usually non-profit organizations, who can sell software
-licensed under the CSL. A group of authors cannot sell their own software under the CSL without first
-becoming a trusted reseller in the sense of the license. The rationale is that the CSL is intended as a
-unique selling point for software licensed under the CSL and arbitrary software authors are not
-expected to reliably handle the financial resources in the intent of the license. Thus the CSL can
-increase the trustworthiness of authors without any disadvantages for software authors who mean
-to take the CSL seriously. Trusted resellers in the sense of the license require external auditors,
-as, for instance, the Deutsche Zentralinstitut für soziale Fragen (dzi.de)
-== Deduction from the price ==
-A preliminary default for price deductions is that residents of developing countries receive a
-deduction of 2% for each step in the Human Development Index their country of residence is below position 127.