thanks for the response. My experience (non-professional) is in evaluating open source software licenses from a Debian point of view. I understand what you're doing - trying to do a document that does both software licensing and ecosystem licensing to protect investors.
The situation is unique and so are the requirements meant to be satisfied by the document. Most likely as the industry progresses you may actually see a new class of license being adopted to protect peoples investments. Because if i was to follow your general thoughts based on your comments, i'd create a license that does nothing to protect the investors of PTS and AGS actually basically a free for all license. This is a business and deserves the right to protect itself.
I see what you're trying to do, I just want to make sure it is prosecutable and defensible. There is no case law, that I know of, to do what you're trying to do - so prosecuting violators (suing) might be very expensive and difficult. My point is to work within existing legal frameworks rather than trying to carve out a new one, even copyleft licensing on its own hasn't been prosecuted much. You may claim you are unique, and you may be, but that makes the license much harder to do correctly.
lol, sure you don't want editing rights?
I believe modify source form includes editing.
Also, be careful with this software license. It is considered "non-free" and is almost definitely incompatible with GPL. Linking with any GPL libraries would be a license violation of GPL.
This is an attempt at copyfarleft, not at all with GPL. I perused the code and everything is under the MIT license. There are no conflicts.[/quote]
It looks like the libraries are just pthreads, boost, ssl, qt - so you should be ok. I was warning future developers that would build off of protoshares that may want to use non-permissive libraries.
I've read many "homebrew" licenses before, and this reads like one. I fear this license is trying to do too much and not working within a standard licensing framework. I don't know barwizi background, he may be qualified for this, but for $20k you should get some silicon valley firm to write you a solid license that would be internationally enforceable. This is an extremely important job, probably not suitable for a bounty. No real lawyer will work for a bounty, and you won't be able to hire one to enforce a license by bounty either.