On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 15:38, Bernhard Fastenrath <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bernhard.fastenrath@gmail.com">bernhard.fastenrath@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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</td><td style="text-align: center;"> <a href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/CSL" title="CSL" target="_blank"><span style="text-decoration: underline; color: white;">Charity Software License</span></a>
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<td style="text-align: center;"> <span style="color: white; font-size: 16px;">You can write software in an open source process<br>and generate revenue for charity.</span>
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<br>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, unless the open source variant <a href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/CSL#Open_source" title="" target="_blank">OSCSL</a>
is chosen. 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
(<a href="http://dzi.de" target="_blank">dzi.de</a>).
A share of the generated revenue can, within predefined limits, be used
to develop the software.
The recipient of revenue shares is the maintainer. The maintainer can
distribute funding,
hire contractors, fork the project or pass on the office of maintainer
to another person.
The office of maintainer is meant to allow a software development
process similar to that of the open source community, although slightly
less inclusive.<br></blockquote><div><br>Yeah... I have a feeling we'll all pass. Thanks for the spam!<br><br>-lf <br></div></div><br>