[Vfs-licencing] Draft version 0.01

[Hans van Buitenen]

NON-COMMERCIAL SOFTWARE LICENSE (NCSW License)
(Derived from the GNU Version 2 License)

Draft Version 0.01, 2003-04-17

Copyright (C)  2003, Hans van Buitenen
Arenberg laan 204.  

Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies
of this license document, but changing it is not allowed.

The NCSW License is derived from the GNU license.
The NCSW licence deviates from the GNU license when it is used on 
Commercial Operating systems.

1 - GENERAL RULES
These licencing rules apply to all components of a software project that 
is released under this license. A few examles are:
Specifications
Manuals, Web pages related to the project
Sourcecode, scripts
Database designs

1.1 - NO WARRANTY
The same warranty applies as specified in the
GNU general public license (http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html)

1.2 - Legal stuff
Because this license is largely based on the GNU license, the Free 
Software Foundation, Inc. 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 
02111-1307, USA it hereby granted the right to take legal action agains 
anyone violating this license if it chooses to do so.

2 - LICENCING RULES FOR USE ON FREELY AVAILABLE OPERATING SYSTEMS
This software is free to use on completely free operating system, it may 
not depend on any non-free software. For such operating systems this 
software is free to use as described in the GNU general public license 
(http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html)

A few examples of free operating systems are:
All Mandrake Linux revisions (*1)
All Slackware Linux revisons (*1)
All Debian Linux revisions (*1)
All FreeBSD revisions (*1)




3 - FOR ALL OTHER OS'S THE FOLLOING RULES APPLLY

3.1 - Part 1
Rules in this part are not subject to major changes in the future.
Software released under this license should always work as well as or 
better on free operating system than other ports. In contrast to the GNU 
license, The NCSW license enforces this: It is not allowed to use a 
Non-free development platform. So new developments should be done on 
free operating systems. The software may then be ported to non-free 
operating systems. At no point should free-only users be at disadvantage 
compared to users of proprietary software. This software should always 
work equally well in free systems as in any other versions of this software.

3.2 - Part 2
Rules in this part are subject to change. These changes apply to all 
software that has been released under this license in the past

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3.3 - Part 3
Rules in this part only apply to this specific software package. Rules 
in this part are subject to change.
This software can be freely used on all systems
(This does not mean it will always be free of charge on all OS'es )

Normally companies or teams who play a secnificant role in developing 
and/or maintaning this software should never be pay for using this 
software, regardless of the OS they are using. The license holder of 
this software may decide otherwise in the case of conflict of interest.

END OF TERMS AND CONDITIONS