THIS IS A DRAFT. DO NOT USE AS A LICENSE.

copyleft-next ("this License")

1. License Grants, Pass-Through and Non-grants

Subject to the terms of this License, I grant You:

a. A non-exclusive, worldwide, perpetual, royalty-free, irrevocable

copyright license, to reproduce, distribute, prepare derivative

works of, publicly perform, and publicly display My Work.

b. A non-exclusive, worldwide, perpetual, royalty-free, irrevocable

patent license under Licensed Patents, to make, have made, use,

sell, offer for sale, and import Covered Works.

When You distribute a Covered Work, the recipient automatically

receives these same license grants from Me.

This License does not grant any rights in My name, trademarks, service

marks, or logos.

2. Distributing Covered Works

You may distribute a Covered Work, subject to the terms in sections

FIXME, which are conditions of this License.

3. Notices

Source Code versions of Covered Works must preserve all pertinent

Legal Notices contained in My Work, except that You may make limited

reasonable reorganizations of existing Legal Notices for purposes of

clarity.

4. Copyleft

Any copyrightable content You add to the Covered Work must be licensed

under this License or a Compatible License.

Distribution of such content separate from other parts of the Covered

Work does not in itself cause such content to not be part of the

Covered Work.

5. Object Code

If You distribute a Covered Work in Object Code form, You must include

with the Object Code a URL through which the Covered Work's CCS may be

copied by the general public, at no charge, through some standard or

customary means.

If you distribute the Object Code in a physical product or tangible

storage medium ("Product"), the CCS must be available through such URL

for two years from the date of Your most recent distribution of the

Object Code in the Product.

However, if the Product itself contains or is accompanied by its CCS,

You need not additionally comply with the first two paragraphs of this

section.

Each recipient of the Covered Work downstream from You is an intended

third-party beneficiary of this License solely as to section 5, with

the right to enforce its terms.

6. No Further Restrictions

You may not impose restrictions on the exercise of permissions granted

under this License beyond those contained in this License. This

condition is not excused merely because such restrictions result from

Your compliance with obligations extrinsic to this License (such as a

court order or an agreement with a third party).

The following activities do not violate this section:

a. Distribution of a Covered Work incorporating material governed by a

Compatible License, but the requirement in section FIXME to provide

Corresponding Source is in no case limited by this permission. If

the Compatible License is a GPL-Family License, and a condition in

the Compatible License conflicts with any of the terms of this

License, You have permission to comply with that Compatible License

condition.

b. Narrowly-tailored measures taken by You to comply with applicable

export control laws.

c. Entering into a contract with a distributee for support,

maintenance or similar services, including contracts that have the

effect of creating temporary disincentives to exercise permissions

under this License.

7. Network Services Copyleft

If You provide a Network Service by running a Covered Work prepared by

You, the Network Service must inform Service Users how they may obtain

the NSS, at no cost, by some standard or customary means of providing

network access to source code.

If I explicitly state in My Work that I opt out of this condition, it

shall not apply to You. You cannot opt out unless I have opted out.

8. Nullification of Copyleft/Proprietary Dual Licensing

If I distribute a Covered Work under a Proprietary License, then the

licenses I grant You under section 1 are no longer subject to the

conditions in sections 2 and 3. "Proprietary License" means a license

which (i) is not royalty-free, (ii) does not permit distribution,

(iii) does not permit preparation of derivative works, (iv) limits the

number of licensed users or copies, and/or (iv) contains field-of-use

restrictions.

9. Copyleft Sunset

The conditions in sections 4 through 8 no longer apply once fifteen

years have elapsed from the date of My first distribution of My Work

under this License.

10. Termination

Your license grants under section 1 are automatically terminated if

You:

a. Fail to comply with the conditions of this License, unless You cure

such noncompliance within thirty days after becoming aware of it,

or

b. Initiate a patent infringement litigation claim (excluding

counterclaims and cross-claims) alleging that all or part of My

Work directly or indirectly infringes a patent.

Termination of Your license grants extends to all copies of Covered

Works You subsequently obtain, but does not terminate the licenses of

those who have received copies of Covered Works from You.

Licenses needed solely to run a copy of a Covered Work shall never be

terminated.

11. Later License Versions

The Copyleft-Next Project may release new versions of copyleft-next,

designated by a distinguishing version number ("Later Versions").

Unless I explicitly remove the option of distributing Covered Works

under Later Versions, You may distribute Covered Code under any Later

Version.

12. No Warranty

Covered Works are provided "as-is", without warranty. You bear the

risk of using it. To the extent permitted by applicable law, each

distributor of a Covered Work excludes the implied warranties of

title, merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, and

noninfringement.

13. Limitation of Liability

To the extent permitted by applicable law, in no event will any

distributor of a Covered Work be liable to You for any damages

whatsoever, whether direct, indirect, special, incidental, statutory

or consequential damages, whether arising under contract, tort

(including negligence), or otherwise, even where the distributor knew

or should have known about the possibility of such damages.

14. Severability

The invalidity or unenforceability of any provision of this License

does not affect the validity or enforceability of the remainder of

this License. Such provision is to be reformed to the minimum extent

necessary to make it valid and enforceable.

15. Definitions

"Licensed Patents" means all patent claims licensable royalty-free by

Me, now or in the future, that are necessarily infringed by making,

using, or selling My Work.

"My Work" means a particular work of authorship that "I" (an

individual or legal entity) have placed under this License.

"Covered Work" means My Work or a derivative work or compilation, or a

work that otherwise contains all or part of My Work, but does not

include (i) mere aggregation of a Covered Work with a Separate Work,

(ii) a mere reproduction of My Work, or (iii) if My Work fails to

explicitly state an expectation otherwise, a work that merely

interacts with My Work through a published interface or merely makes

reference to My Work.

"Separate Work" means a work that is (i) separate from and independent

of a particular Covered Work and is not by its nature an extension or

enhancement of the Covered Work, and/or is (ii) a runtime library,

standard library, or similar component that is used to generate an

Object Code form of a Covered Work.

"Compatible License" means a license listed in Appendix A. The

non-inclusion of a license in Appendix A does not necessarily mean

that distribution of Covered Code incorporating material governed by

that license violates section 2 of this License.

"Copyleft-Next Project" means the project that maintains the source

code repository at <https://github.com/copyleft-next/copyleft-next>

as of the release date of this License.

"Legal Notices" means copyright notices, license notices, license

texts and URIs pointing to license texts, and author attributions, but

does not include logos, other graphical images, trademarks, or

trademark legends.

"Source Code" means the preferred form of a work for making

modifications to it.

"Object Code" means any form of a work that is not Source Code.

"You"/"Your" refers to the individual or legal entity exercising

rights in My Work under this License.

CCS means: (i) the Source Code form of the Covered Work; (ii) all

scripts, instructions, know-how, and similar information that are

reasonably necessary for a skilled developer to generate such Object

Code from the Source Code provided under (i); and (iii) a list clearly

identifying all Separate Works (other than those provided in

compliance with (ii)) that were specifically used in building and (if

applicable) installing the Covered Work (for example, a specified

proprietary compiler including its version number). OCS must be

machine-readable and, to the extent that its licensing is not governed

by section 2 of this License, must be available under terms satisfying

the Free Software Foundation's Free Software Definition

(https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.en.html, version 1.135).

"Network Service" means delivery of software functionality to third-

party users in which users primarily access such functionality

remotely, through network requests made by a client program, such as a

web browser, to a server running the software.

NSS means: (i) the Source Code form of the Covered Work; (ii) all

scripts, instructions, know-how, and similar information that are

reasonably necessary to use the Covered Work to substantially

replicate the Network Service, and (iii) a list clearly identifying

all Separate Works that are specifically used in or required for

providing the Network Service (for example, a specified web server

including its version number).

Appendix A: Compatible Licenses

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CC0 https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode

MIT License https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT

2-Clause BSD License https://opensource.org/licenses/BSD-2-Clause

3-Clause BSD License https://opensource.org/licenses/BSD-3-Clause

Apache License 2.0 https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0.html

MPL 2.0 https://www.mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/

EPL 1.0 https://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html

GPL-Family Licenses:

GPLv2 https://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0-standalone.html

LGPLv2.1 https://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/lgpl-2.1-standalone.html

GPLv3 https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0-standalone.html

LGPLv3 https://www.gnu.org/licenses/lgpl.html

AGPLv3 https://www.gnu.org/licenses/agpl.html