Well I sat down, thought carefully about it, and reorganized
my proposed license along the same lines that I would organize
a config file. Instead of enumerating what is allowed, deny
this, deny that, deny the other, allow everything else. I
think that this is a good way to rewrite it.
It means that your obligations are much more clearly spelled
out, and there is less micromanagement of what you may and may
not do. However it is a significant rewrite, and I would like
to see another iteration (hopefully with some legal input)
before I try drawing this up as an RFP.
Cheers,
Ben
PS This is significantly more lines, but I reformatted. It is
around the same number of words.
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