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[This Software] Copyright © [date] by [who] [website] All rights reserved.

Licensed under the following license:

The Truly Free License (sm)

Version 1.1

Preamble

Free software should be truly free. The GPL and its derivatives infringe upon the freedoms of the licensee by forcing 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 derivative 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.

License

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this project, which includes software and/or the following: associated documentation files, project specific data, eratta, methods and configuration information (the "Project"), to deal in the Project including, without other limitation, the rights to use, copy, modify, enchance, filter, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Project, and to permit persons to whom the Project is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

  1. No part of the Project 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. This entire document, including the above copyright notice, this permission notice, the license for using the license and the disclaimer below shall be included in all copies or portions of the Project, including derivatives. Source files merely need to refer to the license, and the full license file included in source distributions.

  3. Contributions to Projects licensed under the TFL made by licensees including, but not limited to code changes, fixing or reporting issues or bugs, improvements, documentation and the like are automatically licensed under this same license.

  4. Project licensed under the TFL may be used under the terms of the TFL at the time the code was created, and any later version of the TFL as found at http://github.com/nirvana/TFL or as otherwise designated by The Nirvana Organization on its website. Thus, no changes to the license in the future can remove your rights under it.

  5. Creators of software licensed under the TFL reserve the right to retain the projects name as a common-law trademark, and require significant derivatives that lack their blessing to change names to avoid confusion.

  6. Your use of the Project under this license, requires your acceptance these terms.

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 NON-INFRINGEMENT. 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 Copyright © 2015 by The Nirvana Organization http://nirvana.io All rights reserved.

The Truly Free License is copyright 2014, by The Nirvana Organization "The Truly Free License" and "The TFL"/ "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 particulars in the copyright notice, you must use the license verbatim, including these provisions protecting the license itself.
  3. If you have suggestions for changes to the TFL, send us a pull request!
  4. If you wish to make a derivative, you must use a different name.

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