DOLL SOFTWARE LICENSE 📜 ✒️

A simple open-source license that respects FOSS developers. 📜 ✒️

ABOUT 📚

In my opinion, there is a lot wrong with the licensing schemes that exist for FOSS software. I made this license for the following reasons:

• A lot of companies use FOSS software, but neither credit nor compensate the developers of this FOSS software.
• This license still respects the basic principles of FOSS software but aggressively forbids companies or other parties from doing the following:
  • a) Using your FOSS project for commercial purposes without compensating you and/or crediting you.
  • b) Deriving something from your FOSS project and filing a patent without your consent or without compensating you.

ABBREVIATIONS ⚙️

Similar to how other licenses have abbreviations like "GPL v3", the Doll Software License has the abbreviation of DSL v1 or DSL-1.

LICENSE 📜

To include the license in your FOSS project, simply copy-paste the following text into your LICENSE file.

DOLL SOFTWARE LICENSE
Version 1, April 10 2024

Copyright (C) 2024 Angel Dollface <https://angeldollface.boo>
Anyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies
of this license document, but changing it is not allowed.

A single author or authors of this project permit the following use of this project:

- 1.) Any entity is allowed to redistribute, modify, and privately use this project.
- 2.) If the project is modified in any way, the original author or original authors have to be credited.
- 3.) Corporate entities ARE NOT permitted to use this project commercially or for patent use.

The following restrictions apply to this project:

- 1.) The original author or original authors are not liable for any warranty claims. Use of the project is at one's own risk.
- 2.) The original author or original authors are not responsible for any consequences resulting from use of this project.
- 3.) Any modified versions of this project or projects making use of this project HAVE to use this version of this license.

FETCHING 📥

If you want to download the license file, you can do so with either curl or wget:

# CURl
curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/angeldollface/doll-software-license/main/LICENSE
# WGET
wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/angeldollface/doll-software-license/main/LICENSE

NOTE 📜

• Doll Software License 📜 ✒️ by Alexander Abraham 🖤 a.k.a. "Angel Dollface" 🎎 🎀
• Licensed under the DSL v1.