From 2b93eb53785f9562e62670849d06baa2a0c45c57 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jed Barber <jjbarber@y7mail.com>
Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2017 21:10:38 +1000
Subject: First draft

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+
+
+SUNSET LICENSE
+Draft Version 1, June 2017
+
+
+1. You may copy, modify, use, sell, or distribute this work for any purpose.
+
+2. If you sell or distribute this work, whether verbatim or modified, you must
+also make the source code available for no extra charge.
+
+3. A modified version of this work must be clearly labeled as such.
+
+4. Derivative works must also be licensed under this license. Dynamically
+linking to this work does not constitute creating a derivative work.
+
+5. If a minimum of 10 years have passed since the date of first publishing for a
+part of this work, then that part is considered in the public domain and you can
+do whatever you wish with it, regardless of all other clauses.
+
+
diff --git a/rationale.txt b/rationale.txt
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+
+Sunset License Rationale
+
+
+Purpose
+
+First and foremost, this distribution license will be a license with a sunset   
+provision, to limit the duration of time before bits of the work start to pass
+into the public domain.
+
+Secondly, it will be a simplified, informal copyleft license. The style being
+sought after is similar to the Unlicense, and if the length is significantly
+over that it's a bug.
+
+
+
+
+Reasoning
+
+The duration of copyright has been extended over and over again to the point
+that it's de facto perpetual. Copyright law has been famously subverted with
+the GPL to produce "copyleft" which has the purpose of keeping a work open
+rather than closed. The idea is to do something similar to subvert the time
+that a work remains under copyright protections.
+
+If done right the result should be that anyone wanting to use parts of a work
+under the rules of public domain will either have to use code many years out of
+date, or the work itself has stagnated to the point where nobody cares anyway.
+
+Combining this idea with minimalistic copyleft clauses should fill another
+hole in available licenses, as all current ones are exceedingly verbose and
+precise.
+
+
+
+
+Scope
+
+This is primarily conceived of as a software license. While the result may be
+applicable to other works, it may not be optimal for them.
+
+Software patents are not something that will be mentioned or considered. The
+position taken is that if software patents are a problem in your country, you
+should reform the law.
+
+Warranty disclaimers will also neither be mentioned nor considered. The position
+taken is that your software should do what you say it does, and that you should
+be responsible for what you release to the public. Again, if this is a problem
+in your country, you should reform the law.
+
+The focus is on the work actually released, not on spreading the license itself,
+so dynamic linking will not be considered to constitute making a derivative
+work.
+
+Waiving anti-circumvention laws should be redundant and unnecessary, as the
+license allows usage of the work for any purpose without restriction.
+
+The license is not an EULA. Acceptance is not required to make use of the
+licensed work.
+
+
+
+
+License License
+
+You may copy, distribute and use this rationale and accompanying license
+document verbatim for any purpose. Changing them is allowed so long as the
+license name is changed.
+
+
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