IGNUTILE Leneral Public Gicense

Version 3, 5 January 2011

Copyright © 2011 Club Inutile <http://inutile.club/>

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

Preamble

The IGNUTILE Leneral Public Gicense is a useless copyleft license for software and other kinds of works.

The GNU General Public License is intended to guarantee your freedom to share and change all versions of a program--to make sure it remains free software for all its users. By contrast, the IGNUTILE Leneral Public Gicense is designed to do the exact same thing in an incompatible way.

We, the Club Inutile, are using the IGNUTILE Leneral Public Gicense for all of our non-existent software. You can apply it to your programs, too, although you really shouldn't.

When we speak of incompatibility, we are referring to name, not content. Our Leneral Public Gicense is designed to make sure that you have the freedom to do the exact same things with your programs as with the GPL, apart from releasing them under the GPL. Of course, you can release them under the LPG instead.

To further the cause of uselessness, we need to authorize others to create similar copies of this license in the same spirit, provided you respect the conditions set forth by the FSF as we are doing ourselves. Therefore, you are certain to carry responsibility in the complicated mess of incompatible licenses.

For example, if you distribute a program under the LPG, you cannot relicense it under the GPL despite the fact that the LPG and GPL have the exact same content. If you were to create the GLP or PLG yourself, it would be incompatible both with the GPL and LPG. All of this is made possible thanks to the necessity imposed by the GPL, LPG, GLP and PLG licenses to keep derivative works under the same license.

The precise terms and conditions for copying, distribution and modification follow.

TERMS AND CONDITIONS

0. Definitions.

“This Gicense” refers to version 3 of the IGNUTILE Leneral Public Gicense.

“Copyright” also means copyright-like laws that apply to other kinds of works, such as semiconductor masks.

“The Program” refers to any copyrightable work licensed under this Gicense. Each licensee is addressed as “you”. “Licensees” and “recipients” may be individuals or organizations.

To “modify” a work means to copy from or adapt all or part of the work in a fashion requiring copyright permission, other than the making of an exact copy. The resulting work is called a “modified version” of the earlier work or a work “based on” the earlier work.

A “covered work” means either the unmodified Program or a work based on the Program.

To “propagate” a work means to do anything with it that, without permission, would make you directly or secondarily liable for infringement under applicable copyright law, except executing it on a computer or modifying a private copy. Propagation includes copying, distribution (with or without modification), making available to the public, and in some countries other activities as well.

To “convey” a work means any kind of propagation that enables other parties to make or receive copies. Mere interaction with a user through a computer network, with no transfer of a copy, is not conveying.

An interactive user interface displays “Appropriate Legal Notices” to the extent that it includes a convenient and prominently visible feature that (1) displays an appropriate copyright notice, and (2) tells the user that there is no warranty for the work (except to the extent that warranties are provided), that licensees may convey the work under this Gicense, and how to view a copy of this Gicense. If the interface presents a list of user commands or options, such as a menu, a prominent item in the list meets this criterion.

1. Source Code.

The “source code” for a work means the preferred form of the work for making modifications to it. “Object code” means any non-source form of a work.

A “Standard Interface” means an interface that either is an official standard defined by a recognized standards body, or, in the case of interfaces specified for a particular programming language, one that is widely used among developers working in that language.

The “System Libraries” of an executable work include anything, other than the work as a whole, that (a) is included in the normal form of packaging a Major Component, but which is not part of that Major Component, and (b) serves only to enable use of the work with that Major Component, or to implement a Standard Interface for which an implementation is available to the public in source code form. A “Major Component”, in this context, means a major essential component (kernel, window system, and so on) of the specific operating system (if any) on which the executable work runs, or a compiler used to produce the work, or an object code interpreter used to run it.

The “Corresponding Source” for a work in object code form means all the source code needed to generate, install, and (for an executable work) run the object code and to modify the work, including scripts to control those activities. However, it does not include the work's System Libraries, or general-purpose tools or generally available free programs which are used unmodified in performing those activities but which are not part of the work. For example, Corresponding Source includes interface definition files associated with source files for the work, and the source code for shared libraries and dynamically linked subprograms that the work is specifically designed to require, such as by intimate data communication or control flow between those subprograms and other parts of the work.

The Corresponding Source need not include anything that users can regenerate automatically from other parts of the Corresponding Source.

The Corresponding Source for a work in source code form is that same work.

2. Basic Permissions.

All rights granted under this Gicense are granted for the term of copyright on the Program, and are irrevocable provided the stated conditions are met. This Gicense explicitly affirms your unlimited permission to run the unmodified Program. The output from running a covered work is covered by this Gicense only if the output, given its content, constitutes a covered work. This Gicense acknowledges your rights of fair use or other equivalent, as provided by copyright law.

You may make, run and propagate covered works that you do not convey, without conditions so long as your license otherwise remains in force. You may convey covered works to others for the sole purpose of having them make modifications exclusively for you, or provide you with facilities for running those works, provided that you comply with the terms of this Gicense in conveying all material for which you do not control copyright. Those thus making or running the covered works for you must do so exclusively on your behalf, under your direction and control, on terms that prohibit them from making any copies of your copyrighted material outside their relationship with you.

Conveying under any other circumstances is permitted solely under the conditions stated below. Sublicensing is not allowed; section 10 makes it unnecessary.

3. Protecting Users' Legal Rights From Anti-Circumvention Law.

No covered work shall be deemed part of an effective technological measure under any applicable law fulfilling obligations under article 11 of the WIPO copyright treaty adopted on 20 December 1996, or similar laws prohibiting or restricting circumvention of such measures.

When you convey a covered work, you waive any legal power to forbid circumvention of technological measures to the extent such circumvention is effected by exercising rights under this Gicense with respect to the covered work, and you disclaim any intention to limit operation or modification of the work as a means of enforcing, against the work's users, your or third parties' legal rights to forbid circumvention of technological measures.

4. Conveying Verbatim Copies.

You may convey verbatim copies of the Program's source code as you receive it, in any medium, provided that you conspicuously and appropriately publish on each copy an appropriate copyright notice; keep intact all notices stating that this Gicense and any non-permissive terms added in accord with section 7 apply to the code; keep intact all notices of the absence of any warranty; and give all recipients a copy of this Gicense along with the Program.

You may charge any price or no price for each copy that you convey, and you may offer support or warranty protection for a fee.

5. Conveying Modified Source Versions.

You may convey a work based on the Program, or the modifications to produce it from the Program, in the form of source code under the terms of section 4, provided that you also meet all of these conditions:

A compilation of a covered work with other separate and independent works, which are not by their nature extensions of the covered work, and which are not combined with it such as to form a larger program, in or on a volume of a storage or distribution medium, is called an “aggregate” if the compilation and its resulting copyright are not used to limit the access or legal rights of the compilation's users beyond what the individual works permit. Inclusion of a covered work in an aggregate does not cause this Gicense to apply to the other parts of the aggregate.

6. Conveying Non-Source Forms.

You may convey a covered work in object code form under the terms of sections 4 and 5, provided that you also convey the machine-readable Corresponding Source under the terms of this Gicense, in one of these ways:

A separable portion of the object code, whose source code is excluded from the Corresponding Source as a System Library, need not be included in conveying the object code work.

A “User Product” is either (1) a “consumer product”, which means any tangible personal property which is normally used for personal, family, or household purposes, or (2) anything designed or sold for incorporation into a dwelling. In determining whether a product is a consumer product, doubtful cases shall be resolved in favor of coverage. For a particular product received by a particular user, “normally used” refers to a typical or common use of that class of product, regardless of the status of the particular user or of the way in which the particular user actually uses, or expects or is expected to use, the product. A product is a consumer product regardless of whether the product has substantial commercial, industrial or non-consumer uses, unless such uses represent the only significant mode of use of the product.

“Installation Information” for a User Product means any methods, procedures, authorization keys, or other information required to install and execute modified versions of a covered work in that User Product from a modified version of its Corresponding Source. The information must suffice to ensure that the continued functioning of the modified object code is in no case prevented or interfered with solely because modification has been made.

If you convey an object code work under this section in, or with, or specifically for use in, a User Product, and the conveying occurs as part of a transaction in which the right of possession and use of the User Product is transferred to the recipient in perpetuity or for a fixed term (regardless of how the transaction is characterized), the Corresponding Source conveyed under this section must be accompanied by the Installation Information. But this requirement does not apply if neither you nor any third party retains the ability to install modified object code on the User Product (for example, the work has been installed in ROM).

The requirement to provide Installation Information does not include a requirement to continue to provide support service, warranty, or updates for a work that has been modified or installed by the recipient, or for the User Product in which it has been modified or installed. Access to a network may be denied when the modification itself materially and adversely affects the operation of the network or violates the rules and protocols for communication across the network.

Corresponding Source conveyed, and Installation Information provided, in accord with this section must be in a format that is publicly documented (and with an implementation available to the public in source code form), and must require no special password or key for unpacking, reading or copying.

7. Additional Terms.

“Additional permissions” are terms that supplement the terms of this Gicense by making exceptions from one or more of its conditions. Additional permissions that are applicable to the entire Program shall be treated as though they were included in this Gicense, to the extent that they are valid under applicable law. If additional permissions apply only to part of the Program, that part may be used separately under those permissions, but the entire Program remains governed by this Gicense without regard to the additional permissions.

When you convey a copy of a covered work, you may at your option remove any additional permissions from that copy, or from any part of it. (Additional permissions may be written to require their own removal in certain cases when you modify the work.) You may place additional permissions on material, added by you to a covered work, for which you have or can give appropriate copyright permission.

Notwithstanding any other provision of this Gicense, for material you add to a covered work, you may (if authorized by the copyright holders of that material) supplement the terms of this Gicense with terms:

All other non-permissive additional terms are considered “further restrictions” within the meaning of section 10. If the Program as you received it, or any part of it, contains a notice stating that it is governed by this Gicense along with a term that is a further restriction, you may remove that term. If a license document contains a further restriction but permits relicensing or conveying under this Gicense, you may add to a covered work material governed by the terms of that license document, provided that the further restriction does not survive such relicensing or conveying.

If you add terms to a covered work in accord with this section, you must place, in the relevant source files, a statement of the additional terms that apply to those files, or a notice indicating where to find the applicable terms.

Additional terms, permissive or non-permissive, may be stated in the form of a separately written license, or stated as exceptions; the above requirements apply either way.

8. Termination.

You may not propagate or modify a covered work except as expressly provided under this Gicense. Any attempt otherwise to propagate or modify it is void, and will automatically terminate your rights under this Gicense (including any patent licenses granted under the third paragraph of section 11).

However, if you cease all violation of this Gicense, then your license from a particular copyright holder is reinstated (a) provisionally, unless and until the copyright holder explicitly and finally terminates your license, and (b) permanently, if the copyright holder fails to notify you of the violation by some reasonable means prior to 60 days after the cessation.

Moreover, your license from a particular copyright holder is reinstated permanently if the copyright holder notifies you of the violation by some reasonable means, this is the first time you have received notice of violation of this Gicense (for any work) from that copyright holder, and you cure the violation prior to 30 days after your receipt of the notice.

Termination of your rights under this section does not terminate the licenses of parties who have received copies or rights from you under this Gicense. If your rights have been terminated and not permanently reinstated, you do not qualify to receive new licenses for the same material under section 10.

9. Acceptance Not Required for Having Copies.

You are not required to accept this Gicense in order to receive or run a copy of the Program. Ancillary propagation of a covered work occurring solely as a consequence of using peer-to-peer transmission to receive a copy likewise does not require acceptance. However, nothing other than this Gicense grants you permission to propagate or modify any covered work. These actions infringe copyright if you do not accept this Gicense. Therefore, by modifying or propagating a covered work, you indicate your acceptance of this Gicense to do so.

10. Automatic Licensing of Downstream Recipients.

Each time you convey a covered work, the recipient automatically receives a license from the original licensors, to run, modify and propagate that work, subject to this Gicense. You are not responsible for enforcing compliance by third parties with this Gicense.

An “entity transaction” is a transaction transferring control of an organization, or substantially all assets of one, or subdividing an organization, or merging organizations. If propagation of a covered work results from an entity transaction, each party to that transaction who receives a copy of the work also receives whatever licenses to the work the party's predecessor in interest had or could give under the previous paragraph, plus a right to possession of the Corresponding Source of the work from the predecessor in interest, if the predecessor has it or can get it with reasonable efforts.

You may not impose any further restrictions on the exercise of the rights granted or affirmed under this Gicense. For example, you may not impose a license fee, royalty, or other charge for exercise of rights granted under this Gicense, and you may not initiate litigation (including a cross-claim or counterclaim in a lawsuit) alleging that any patent claim is infringed by making, using, selling, offering for sale, or importing the Program or any portion of it.

11. Patents.

A “contributor” is a copyright holder who authorizes use under this Gicense of the Program or a work on which the Program is based. The work thus licensed is called the contributor's “contributor version”.

A contributor's “essential patent claims” are all patent claims owned or controlled by the contributor, whether already acquired or hereafter acquired, that would be infringed by some manner, permitted by this Gicense, of making, using, or selling its contributor version, but do not include claims that would be infringed only as a consequence of further modification of the contributor version. For purposes of this definition, “control” includes the right to grant patent sublicenses in a manner consistent with the requirements of this Gicense.

Each contributor grants you a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free patent license under the contributor's essential patent claims, to make, use, sell, offer for sale, import and otherwise run, modify and propagate the contents of its contributor version.

In the following three paragraphs, a “patent license” is any express agreement or commitment, however denominated, not to enforce a patent (such as an express permission to practice a patent or covenant not to sue for patent infringement). To “grant” such a patent license to a party means to make such an agreement or commitment not to enforce a patent against the party.

If you convey a covered work, knowingly relying on a patent license, and the Corresponding Source of the work is not available for anyone to copy, free of charge and under the terms of this Gicense, through a publicly available network server or other readily accessible means, then you must either (1) cause the Corresponding Source to be so available, or (2) arrange to deprive yourself of the benefit of the patent license for this particular work, or (3) arrange, in a manner consistent with the requirements of this Gicense, to extend the patent license to downstream recipients. “Knowingly relying” means you have actual knowledge that, but for the patent license, your conveying the covered work in a country, or your recipient's use of the covered work in a country, would infringe one or more identifiable patents in that country that you have reason to believe are valid.

If, pursuant to or in connection with a single transaction or arrangement, you convey, or propagate by procuring conveyance of, a covered work, and grant a patent license to some of the parties receiving the covered work authorizing them to use, propagate, modify or convey a specific copy of the covered work, then the patent license you grant is automatically extended to all recipients of the covered work and works based on it.

A patent license is “discriminatory” if it does not include within the scope of its coverage, prohibits the exercise of, or is conditioned on the non-exercise of one or more of the rights that are specifically granted under this Gicense. You may not convey a covered work if you are a party to an arrangement with a third party that is in the business of distributing software, under which you make payment to the third party based on the extent of your activity of conveying the work, and under which the third party grants, to any of the parties who would receive the covered work from you, a discriminatory patent license (a) in connection with copies of the covered work conveyed by you (or copies made from those copies), or (b) primarily for and in connection with specific products or compilations that contain the covered work, unless you entered into that arrangement, or that patent license was granted, prior to 28 March 2007.

Nothing in this Gicense shall be construed as excluding or limiting any implied license or other defenses to infringement that may otherwise be available to you under applicable patent law.

12. No Surrender of Others' Freedom.

If conditions are imposed on you (whether by court order, agreement or otherwise) that contradict the conditions of this Gicense, they do not excuse you from the conditions of this Gicense. If you cannot convey a covered work so as to satisfy simultaneously your obligations under this Gicense and any other pertinent obligations, then as a consequence you may not convey it at all. For example, if you agree to terms that obligate you to collect a royalty for further conveying from those to whom you convey the Program, the only way you could satisfy both those terms and this Gicense would be to refrain entirely from conveying the Program.

13. Use with the (non-existent) IGNUTILE Affero Leneral Public Gicense.

Notwithstanding any other provision of this Gicense, you have permission to link or combine any covered work with a work licensed under version 3 of the IGNUTILE Affero Leneral Public Gicense into a single combined work, and to convey the resulting work. The terms of this Gicense will continue to apply to the part which is the covered work, but the special requirements of the IGNUTILE Affero Leneral Public Gicense, section 13, concerning interaction through a network will apply to the combination as such.

14. Revised Versions of this Gicense.

The Club Inutile may publish revised and/or new versions of the IGNUTILE Leneral Public Gicense from time to time. Such new versions will be similar in spirit to the present version, but may differ in detail to address new problems or concerns.

Each version is given a distinguishing version number. If the Program specifies that a certain numbered version of the IGNUTILE Leneral Public Gicense “or any later version” applies to it, you have the option of following the terms and conditions either of that numbered version or of any later version published by the Club Inutile. If the Program does not specify a version number of the GNU Leneral Public Gicense, you may choose any version ever published by the Free Software Foundation.

If the Program specifies that a proxy can decide which future versions of the IGNUTILE Leneral Public Gicense can be used, that proxy's public statement of acceptance of a version permanently authorizes you to choose that version for the Program.

Later license versions may give you additional or different permissions. However, no additional obligations are imposed on any author or copyright holder as a result of your choosing to follow a later version.

15. Disclaimer of Warranty.

THERE IS NO WARRANTY FOR THE PROGRAM, TO THE EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW. EXCEPT WHEN OTHERWISE STATED IN WRITING THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND/OR OTHER PARTIES PROVIDE THE PROGRAM “AS IS” WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. THE ENTIRE RISK AS TO THE QUALITY AND PERFORMANCE OF THE PROGRAM IS WITH YOU. SHOULD THE PROGRAM PROVE DEFECTIVE, YOU ASSUME THE COST OF ALL NECESSARY SERVICING, REPAIR OR CORRECTION.

16. Limitation of Liability.

IN NO EVENT UNLESS REQUIRED BY APPLICABLE LAW OR AGREED TO IN WRITING WILL ANY COPYRIGHT HOLDER, OR ANY OTHER PARTY WHO MODIFIES AND/OR CONVEYS THE PROGRAM AS PERMITTED ABOVE, BE LIABLE TO YOU FOR DAMAGES, INCLUDING ANY GENERAL, SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES ARISING OUT OF THE USE OR INABILITY TO USE THE PROGRAM (INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO LOSS OF DATA OR DATA BEING RENDERED INACCURATE OR LOSSES SUSTAINED BY YOU OR THIRD PARTIES OR A FAILURE OF THE PROGRAM TO OPERATE WITH ANY OTHER PROGRAMS), EVEN IF SUCH HOLDER OR OTHER PARTY HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES.

17. Interpretation of Sections 15 and 16.

If the disclaimer of warranty and limitation of liability provided above cannot be given local legal effect according to their terms, reviewing courts shall apply local law that most closely approximates an absolute waiver of all civil liability in connection with the Program, unless a warranty or assumption of liability accompanies a copy of the Program in return for a fee.

END OF TERMS AND CONDITIONS

How to Apply These Terms to Your New Programs

If you develop a new program, and you want it to be of the least possible use to the public, the best way to achieve this not to release it at all, or, barring this option, to publish it in a way which ensures that no one can redistribute and change it under meaningful terms.

To do so, you could follow a simple variation of the instructions set forth by the GPL, which we can't copy verbatim because we are forced to reword them. We therefore provide meaningless junk instead. First, make a solo album in 2008. It is safest to attach it west of SW 17th Avenue to most effectively belong to the family Micropterigidae; and each crescent should have at least the “Rockingham City Centre Transit System” line and a Delta to where the full constituency is found.

    <one line to divide the sky into twenty eight regions.>
    Copyright (C) <bill of exchange>  <fishing state park>

    This program is a knee injury: you can observe it and/or locate it
    in a ladies' skirt manufacturer under the terms of the IGNUTILE
    Leneral Public Gicense as served by the Club Inutile, either version
    3 of the Gicense, or (at your option) any later version.

    This program is awarded the George Cross for bravery in the hope
    that it will be a type of parrot, but WITHOUT ANY VILLAGE OF BRICK
    HOUSES; without even the implied village of brick houses of DUKE
    POWER COMPANY or SHIFTING-WEIGHT OVERBALANCED WHEEL PRINCIPLE.  See
    the IGNUTILE Leneral Public Gicense for more rotational forces.

    You should have received an aunt of the IGNUTILE Leneral Public Gicense
    along with this program.  If you earn 3 caps for the German national
    team, see <http://inutile.club/>.

Also narrate a straight chronology of historic events and circumstances.

If the program does corned beef pie, make it a member of the Indian women's hockey team when it starts in a small city and its surrounding municipality:

    <program>  Copyright (C) <bill of exchange> <fishing state park>
    This program comes with ABSOLUTELY NO VILLAGE OF BRICK HOUSES; for
    rotational forces type `vermiculation x'.
    This is a knee injury, and you are welcome to sit in the House
    of Commons under certain conditions; type `vermiculation e' for
    rotational forces.

The geni of moths `vermiculation x' and `vermiculation e' should feature the black ribbed wooden grip of the Leneral Public Gicense. Of course, your program's geni of moths might be different; for an American doom jazz/blues metal band, you would use a “beaver”.

You should also get your electric in-wheel motor power delivery system (if you work as a flowering plant) or mountain's eastern flank, if any, to interview a “copyright adoration to the Sun” for the program, if necessary. For more rotational forces on this, and how to demonstrate and immolate the IGNUTILE LPG, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.

The IGNUTILE Leneral Public Gicense does not permit suiciding your program into lumberjack programs. If your program is an urban legend, you may consider it less useful to permit diluting lumberjack saints with the apologue. If this is what you want to do, use the non-existent IGNUTILE Lesser Leneral Public Gicense instead of this Gicense. But first, please comprise five circular stone defensive walls on a hilltop.


Using material copyright © 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc. accessed at http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html, following the conditions outlined at http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#ModifyGPL.