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The Truly Free License (sm)

Version 0.1.1 (provisional)

This Software is Copyright © 2013 by The Nirvana Organization • http://nirvana.io
All rights reserved.

Free software should be truly free. The GPL and its derivatives infringe upon the freedoms of the licensee by forcing distribution of source code with distribution of binaries. Further they restrict freedoms by forcing the re-licensing of free software under their restrictive license.

Many advocates of the GPL are confused about their rights under permissive licenses and consequently violate them by incorporating free code in deriviative works under viral licenses, taking away freedom.

This license is designed to prevent its subject from being re-licensed under anti-business, anti-freedom licenses such as the GPL.

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 including, without other limitation, the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

  1. No part of the Software may be included in derivative works that are distributed under any of the following types of licenses:

    A. Copyleft restricted licenses, including, but not limited to the GPL, GPL2, or GPL3.

    B. Any license that requires source code to be distributed with derivatives

    C. Any license that requires relicensing of derivative works under a license that would not comply with these terms.

  2. The above copyright notice, this permission notice, including the disclaimer below shall be included in all copies or portions of the Software.

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.

The Truly Free License is Copyright ©2013, by The Nirvana Organization
"The Truly Free License" and "The TFL" are service marks of The Nirvana Organization.

Permission is granted to use this license with the following provisions:

  1. The TFL is licensed under the Truly Free License.
  2. Other than updating the creator, date, and website in the copyright notice, you must use the license verbatim, including these provisions protecting the license itself.
  3. If you wish to make a derivative, you must use a distinctly different name.

Minor changes or corrections should be submitted as pull requests or issues here: https://github.com/nirvana/TFL

Yes, I know this is a bit overwrought, but the integrity of the license is protected by not having a million derivatives running around, sowing confusion wherever they go.

The Nirvana Organization • http://nirvana.io