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diff --git a/v2/assets/License/BSD-Protection/license.txt b/v2/assets/License/BSD-Protection/license.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..94296fd --- /dev/null +++ b/v2/assets/License/BSD-Protection/license.txt @@ -0,0 +1,128 @@ +BSD Protection License + +February 2002 + +Preamble + +-------- + +The Berkeley Software Distribution ("BSD") license has proven very effective +over the years at allowing for a wide spread of work throughout both +commercial and non-commercial products. For programmers whose primary +intention is to improve the general quality of available software, it is +arguable that there is no better license than the BSD license, as it permits +improvements to be used wherever they will help, without idealogical or +metallic constraint. + +This is of particular value to those who produce reference implementations of +proposed standards: The case of TCP/IP clearly illustrates that freely and +universally available implementations leads the rapid acceptance of standards +-- often even being used instead of a de jure standard (eg, OSI network +models). + +With the rapid proliferation of software licensed under the GNU General Public +License, however, the continued success of this role is called into question. +Given that the inclusion of a few lines of "GPL-tainted" work into a larger +body of work will result in restricted distribution -- and given that further +work will likely build upon the "tainted" portions, making them difficult to +remove at a future date -- there are inevitable circumstances where authors +would, in order to protect their goal of providing for the widespread usage of +their work, wish to guard against such "GPL-taint". + +In addition, one can imagine that companies which operate by producing and +selling (possibly closed-source) code would wish to protect themselves against +the rise of a GPL-licensed competitor. While under existing licenses this +would mean not releasing their code under any form of open license, if a +license existed under which they could incorporate any improvements back into +their own (commercial) products then they might be far more willing to provide +for non-closed distribution. + +For the above reasons, we put forth this "BSD Protection License": A license +designed to retain the freedom granted by the BSD license to use licensed +works in a wide variety of settings, both non-commercial and commercial, while +protecting the work from having future contributors restrict that freedom. + +The precise terms and conditions for copying, distribution, and modification +follow. + +BSD PROTECTION LICENSE TERMS AND CONDITIONS FOR COPYING, DISTRIBUTION, AND +MODIFICATION + +---------------------------------------------------------------- + +0. 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