├── THANKS ├── spelling.en.pws ├── .travis.yml ├── Makefile ├── release ├── README.md ├── CHANGING └── LICENSE.md /THANKS: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 | Jeremy Ashkenas 2 | Richard Littauer 3 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- /spelling.en.pws: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 | personal_ws-1.1 en 0 utf-8 2 | AGPL 3 | GPL 4 | GitHub 5 | NonCommercial 6 | gracePeriod 7 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- /.travis.yml: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 | --- 2 | addons: 3 | apt: 4 | packages: 5 | - aspell 6 | - aspell-en 7 | script: make test 8 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- /Makefile: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 | .PHONY: test 2 | 3 | test: 4 | ! cat *.md | aspell --dont-backup --personal=./spelling.en.pws list | sort -u | grep "^" 5 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- /release: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 | #!/bin/bash 2 | if [ -z "$1" ]; then 3 | echo "Usage: " 4 | exit 1 5 | fi 6 | 7 | set -ex 8 | 9 | version="$1" 10 | branch="release-$version" 11 | tag="v$version" 12 | LICENSE=LICENSE.md 13 | VERSION=version.json 14 | 15 | git checkout -b "$branch" master 16 | sed --in-place "s/Development Draft/$version/" $LICENSE 17 | echo "\"$version\"" > $VERSION 18 | git add $LICENSE $VERSION 19 | git commit -m "Version $version" 20 | git tag "$tag" 21 | git push origin "$branch" 22 | git push origin "$tag" 23 | git checkout master 24 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- /README.md: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 | # The Prosperity Public License 2 | 3 | Prosperity is a public `LICENSE` for open software that requires users who use your software for commercial purposes to limit their use to a period of days. In other words, Prosperity works for software similar to how [Creative Commons' Attribution-NonCommercial License](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) works for other creative work. Software under Prosperity is free for noncommercial use, and offers a free, automatic, honor-system trial to commercial users. 4 | 5 | Prosperity is a [flipped form](https://flippedform.com) in everyday English. If something doesn't make sense, that's Prosperity's fault, not yours. Please [open an issue on GitHub](https://github.com/licensezero/parity-public-license/issues/new) so we can fix it. 6 | 7 | ## Why? 8 | 9 | You might choose Prosperity because you've written an application for creating work other than other software, and want to sell business licenses while allowing hobbyists, students, and charities to use for free. 10 | 11 | ## Family 12 | 13 | Prosperity is one member of a family of licenses published by [Artless Devices LLC](https://artlessdevices.com) for [licensezero.com](https://licensezero.com): 14 | 15 | - [Parity](https://github.com/licensezero/parity-public-license), a strong reciprocal license 16 | - [Charity](https://github.com/licensezero/charity-public-license), a permissive license 17 | - [Prosperity](https://github.com/licensezero/prosperity-public-license), a noncommercial license 18 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- /CHANGING: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 | Mitchell's Law Form License, Version 1.1.0 2 | 3 | Original Form Author: Artless Devices, LLC 4 | 5 | The contributors to this form grant you a license do everything that 6 | would otherwise violate their exclusive rights as copyright holders, 7 | under these conditions: 8 | 9 | *********************************************************************** 10 | * 1. 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Don't do anything with this software that triggers a rule you can't or won't follow. 14 | 15 | ## Notices 16 | 17 | Make sure everyone who gets a copy of any part of this software from you, with or without changes, also gets the text of this license and the contributor and source code lines above. 18 | 19 | ## Commercial Trial 20 | 21 | Limit your use of this software for commercial purposes to a thirty-day trial period. If you use this software for work, your company gets one trial period for all personnel, not one trial per person. 22 | 23 | ## Contributions Back 24 | 25 | Developing feedback, changes, or additions that you contribute back to the contributor on the terms of a standardized public software license such as [the Blue Oak Model License 1.0.0](https://blueoakcouncil.org/license/1.0.0), [the Apache License 2.0](https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0.html), [the MIT license](https://spdx.org/licenses/MIT.html), or [the two-clause BSD license](https://spdx.org/licenses/BSD-2-Clause.html) doesn't count as use for a commercial purpose. 26 | 27 | ## Personal Uses 28 | 29 | Personal use for research, experiment, and testing for the benefit of public knowledge, personal study, private entertainment, hobby projects, amateur pursuits, or religious observance, without any anticipated commercial application, doesn't count as use for a commercial purpose. 30 | 31 | ## Noncommercial Organizations 32 | 33 | Use by any charitable organization, educational institution, public research organization, public safety or health organization, environmental protection organization, or government institution doesn't count as use for a commercial purpose regardless of the source of funding or obligations resulting from the funding. 34 | 35 | ## Defense 36 | 37 | Don't make any legal claim against anyone accusing this software, with or without changes, alone or with other technology, of infringing any patent. 38 | 39 | ## Copyright 40 | 41 | The contributor licenses you to do everything with this software that would otherwise infringe their copyright in it. 42 | 43 | ## Patent 44 | 45 | The contributor licenses you to do everything with this software that would otherwise infringe any patents they can license or become able to license. 46 | 47 | ## Reliability 48 | 49 | The contributor can't revoke this license. 50 | 51 | ## Excuse 52 | 53 | You're excused for unknowingly breaking [Notices](#notices) if you take all practical steps to comply within thirty days of learning you broke the rule. 54 | 55 | ## No Liability 56 | 57 | ***As far as the law allows, this software comes as is, without any warranty or condition, and the contributor won't be liable to anyone for any damages related to this software or this license, under any kind of legal claim.*** 58 | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------