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This is a proposal for a Charity Software License. |
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== Intent of the License == |
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This section is meant to clarify the spirit of the license. |
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The intent of the license is to offer an alternative to open source software as specified by the OSI open source definition. |
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Software licensed under the CSL can be made available in source code but there is no obligation to do so. |
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The software is made available with guarantees about the use of revenue generated by software sales. |
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The license will include a list of trusted third parties, usually non-profit organizations, who can sell software |
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licensed under the CSL. A group of authors cannot sell their own software under the CSL without first |
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becoming a trusted reseller in the sense of the license. The rationale is that the CSL is intended as a |
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unique selling point for software licensed under the CSL and arbitrary software authors are not |
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expected to reliably handle the financial resources in the intent of the license. Thus the CSL can |
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increase the trustworthiness of authors without any disadvantages for software authors who mean |
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to take the CSL seriously. Trusted resellers in the sense of the license require external auditors, |
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as, for instance, the Deutsche Zentralinstitut für soziale Fragen (dzi.de) |
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=== Deduction from the price === |
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A preliminary default for price deductions is that residents of developing countries receive a |
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deduction of 2% for each step in the Human Development Index their country of residence is below position 127. |
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=== Compatible licenses === |
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The CSL is intended to allow use of software components licensed under LGPL License, BSD License, Apache License or Mozilla License. |
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Latest revision as of 12:28, 25 December 2008
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