A published proprietary license targeting commerical and sole proprietor for (Holloway) Chew, Kean Ho product licensing purposes. This license was adopted from the Open Source Initiative's Apache 2.0 License and Creative Common Licenses as its baseline and applied the following changes:
- Changed
Software
toProduct
so that the license can be expanded to non-software product licensing usage (e.g. graphics, video, manufacturing design, audio, etc) without needing to spin multiple outbound licenses; AND - Added license assignment, ratification, and tenure section to specify when and how is the license applied; AND
- Added version controlled clauses for which version shall be in effect by default; AND
- Replaced all open-source and sharing clauses with lockdown clauses to seal the proprietary exclusivity and uses overriding terms and conditions via license grant issuance; AND
- Framework all available rights based on Creative Common definitions for communications inter-compatibility purposes; AND
- Added sensitive data coverage; AND
- Added license grant sales and purchase coverage; AND
- Added artifical intelligence training dataset usage clauses; AND
- Added trademark usage coverage; AND
- Added force manjure limitation of liability; AND
- Added Sensitive Data limitation of liability; AND
- Added global vendors (e.g. datacenter) Sensitive Data limitation of liability; AND
- Added judiciary minimal damage values limitation of liability; AND
- Added geographical indicator coverage; AND
- Added protected geographical indicator coverage; AND
- Added protected designation indicator coverage; AND
- Added industrial design use coverage; AND
- Added integrated circuit layout design use coverage; AND
- Added trade secret use coverage; AND
- Expanded grant clauses into Creative Commons' rights categories.
This repository was formerly known as
(Holloway) Chew, Kean Ho's Proprietary License 1.0
but was renamed for
consistency purposes.
This repository is version controlled using semantic versioning definitions where:
- the
MAJOR
version denotes major legal changes; AND - the
MINOR
version denotes minor changes without altering the legal implication side of things such as but not limited to grammar correction, fonts, typo, and etc; AND - the
PATCH
version denotes the repository management changes such as but not limited to new language addition, updatingREADME.md
, and etc.
To use this license for your product licensing, you MUST, in layman terms, consider the following as your recipient perpectives:
- You're only allowed to use for personal deployment as long as you:
- SHALL procure either given by or purchase the license grant from the copyright owner in written document; AND
- SHALL only use within the specified terms and conditions inside your grant; AND
- SHALL retain the copyright notices and effects of the product you use, be it in its raw form (e.g. source codes) or its produced form (compiled software binary files); AND
- SHALL NOT use the creators' name, brand, and trademark without their written notices for any endorsement of your pursue; AND
- SHALL NOT OWN any copy of the Product by deleting them all from your posession if you do not have any procured license grant; AND
- You're only allowed to use for commercial deployment as long as you:
- SHALL procure either given by or purchase the license grant from the copyright owner in written document; AND
- SHALL only use within the specified terms and conditions inside your grant; AND
- SHALL retain the copyright notices and effects of the product you use, be it in its raw form (e.g. source codes) or its produced form (compiled software binary files); AND
- SHALL NOT use the creators' name, brand, and trademark without their written notices for any endorsement of your pursue; AND
- SHALL NOT OWN any copy of the Product by deleting them all from your posession if you do not have any procured license grant; AND
- You're only allowed to edit/modify as long as you:
- SHALL procure either given by or purchase the license grant from the copyright owner in written document; AND
- SHALL only use within the specified terms and conditions inside your grant; AND
- SHALL retain the copyright notices and effects of the product you use, be it in its raw form (e.g. source codes) or its produced form (compiled software binary files); AND
- SHALL NOT use the creators' name, brand, and trademark without their written notices for any endorsement of your pursue; AND
- SHALL NOT OWN any copy of the Product by deleting them all from your posession if you do not have any procured license grant; AND
- You're only allowed to remix/remaster as long as you:
- SHALL procure either given by or purchase the license grant from the copyright owner in written document; AND
- SHALL only use within the specified terms and conditions inside your grant; AND
- SHALL retain the copyright notices and effects of the product you use, be it in its raw form (e.g. source codes) or its produced form (compiled software binary files); AND
- SHALL NOT use the creators' name, brand, and trademark without their written notices for any endorsement of your pursue; AND
- SHALL NOT OWN any copy of the Product by deleting them all from your posession if you do not have any procured license grant; AND
- You're only allowed to distribute as long as you:
- SHALL procure either given by or purchase the license grant from the copyright owner in written document; AND
- SHALL only use within the specified terms and conditions inside your grant; AND
- SHALL retain the copyright notices and effects of the product you use, be it in its raw form (e.g. source codes) or its produced form (compiled software binary files); AND
- SHALL NOT use the creators' name, brand, and trademark without their written notices for any endorsement of your pursue; AND
- SHALL NOT OWN any copy of the Product by deleting them all from your posession if you do not have any procured license grant; AND
- You're only allowed to re-distribute as long as you:
- SHALL procure either given by or purchase the license grant from the copyright owner in written document; AND
- SHALL only use within the specified terms and conditions inside your grant; AND
- SHALL retain the copyright notices and effects of the product you use, be it in its raw form (e.g. source codes) or its produced form (compiled software binary files); AND
- SHALL NOT use the creators' name, brand, and trademark without their written notices for any endorsement of your pursue; AND
- SHALL NOT OWN any copy of the Product by deleting them all from your posession if you do not have any procured license grant; AND
- You're only allowed to perform any miscellaneous rights not mentioned above
as long as you:
- SHALL procure either given by or purchase the license grant from the copyright owner in written document; AND
- SHALL only use within the specified terms and conditions inside your grant; AND
- SHALL retain the copyright notices and effects of the product you use, be it in its raw form (e.g. source codes) or its produced form (compiled software binary files); AND
- SHALL NOT use the creators' name, brand, and trademark without their written notices for any endorsement of your pursue; AND
- SHALL NOT OWN any copy of the Product by deleting them all from your posession if you do not have any procured license grant.
The latest license files shall be referenced and be downloadable from:
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13767361
The following are the license notice within the supported languages:
Copyright [YEAR] [FULL_LEGAL_NAME] [CONTACT_LIKE_EMAIL_ADDRESS]
Licensed under the (Holloway) Chew, Kean Ho’s Proprietary License
(the "License"); you may not use this content except in compliance with
the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13767361
DISSEMINATION OR REPRODUCTION PART OF OR ALL OF THE CONTENT IS STRICTLY
FORBIDDEN UNLESS ONE OR MORE APPLICABLE WRITTEN GRANT IS PROCURED FROM THE
CORRESPONDING COPYRIGHT HOLDERS. See the License for the specific language
governing permissions and limitations under the License.
This workspace and repository is published under Creative Common CC-BY-ND 4.0.