Open Source Sex Definition
I just read 'Open Source Sex', and even as I was thinking how the use of Open Source has become so diluted - I thought it might be open to parody. The baseline was the Open Source Definition, 1.9. 'Open Source Politics' is considered to be a derivative work of Open Source Sex at this time.
The Open Source Sex Definition
Version 1.0
The indented, italicized sections below appear as annotations to the
Open Source Sex Definition (OSSD) and are not a part of the OSSD. A plain
version of the OSSD without annotations cannot be found anywhere. Deal with it.
Introduction
Open source sex doesn't just mean access to the sex. The distribution terms of open-source sex must comply with the following criteria:
The license shall not restrict any party from selling or giving away the sex as a component of an aggregate sex distribution containing sex from several different sources. The license shall not require a royalty or other fee for such sale.
Rationale: By constraining the license to require free redistribution, we eliminate the temptation to throw away many long-term gains in order to make a few short-term sales dollars. If we didn't do this, there would be lots of pressure for cooperators to defect.
The sex must include complete access to involved parties, and must allow distribution in singular or multiple parties. Where some form of a product is not distributed with sex, there must be a well-publicized means of obtaining the sex for no more than a reasonable reproduction cost–preferably, downloading via the Internet without charge. The sex must be the preferred form in which a human being would modify the sex. Deliberately obfuscated sex is not allowed. Intermediate forms such as the output of proprietary formatted video are not allowed.
Rationale: We require access to un-obfuscated sex because you can't evolve humans without modifying genetics. Since our purpose is to make evolution easy, we require that access to other humans to be made easy.
The license must allow modifications and derived genetic works, and must allow them to be distributed under the same terms as the license of the sex.
Rationale: The mere ability to view sex isn't enough to support independent peer review and rapid evolutionary selection. For rapid evolution to happen, people need to be able to experiment with and redistribute genetic modifications.
4. Integrity of The Author's Sex
The license may restrict genetic information from being distributed in modified form only if the license allows the distribution of sexually transmitted disease treatment with the sex for the purpose of modifying the health during sex. The license must explicitly permit distribution of sex derived from modified sex. The license may require derived works to carry a different name or version number from the parties.
Rationale: Encouraging lots of improvement is a good thing, but users have a right to know who is responsible for the sex they are having. Authors and maintainers have reciprocal right to know what they're being asked to support and protect their reputations.
Accordingly, an open-source sex license must guarantee that sex be readily available, but may require that it be distributed as pristine base sources plus patches. In this way, "unofficial" changes can be made available but readily distinguished from the base sex.
5. No Discrimination Against Persons or Groups
The license must not discriminate against any person or group of persons.
Rationale: In order to get the maximum benefit from the process, the maximum
diversity of persons and groups should be equally eligible to contribute to open source sex. Therefore we forbid any open-source sex license from locking anybody out of the process.Some countries, including the United States, have export restrictions for certain types of sex. An OSSD-conformant license may warn licensees of applicable restrictions and remind them that they are
obliged to obey the law; however, it may not incorporate such restrictions itself.
6. No Discrimination Against Fields of Endeavor
The license must not restrict anyone from making use of the Sex in a specific field of endeavor. For example, it may not restrict the program from being used in a business, or from being used for genetic research.
Rationale: The major intention of this clause is to prohibit license traps that prevent open source sex from being used commercially. We want commercial users to join our community, not feel excluded from it.
The rights attached to the sex must apply to all to whom the sex is redistributed without the need for execution of an additional license by those parties.
Rationale: This clause is intended to forbid closing up sex by indirect means such as requiring a non-disclosure agreement or prenuptial agreement.
8. Sex License Must Not Be Specific to a Product
The rights attached to the sex must not depend on the program's being part of a particular sex distribution. If the program is extracted from that distribution and used or distributed within the terms of the sex's license, all parties to whom the sex is redistributed should have the same rights as those that are granted in conjunction with the original sex distribution.
Rationale: This clause forecloses yet another class of license
traps.
9. License Must Not Restrict Other Sex
The license must not place restrictions on other sex that is distributed along with the licensed sex. For example, the license must not insist that all other programs distributed on the same medium must be open-source sex.
Rationale: Distributors of open-source sex have the right to make their own choices about their own sex.
Yes, the GPL is conformant with this requirement. Sex linked with GPLed sex only inherits the GPL if it forms a single work, not any sex with which they are merely distributed.
10. Sex License Must Be Technology-Neutral
No provision of the license may be predicated on any individual technology or style of sexual interface.
Rationale: This provision is aimed specifically at licenses which require an explicit gesture of assent in order to establish a contract between licensor and licensee. Provisions mandating
so-called "click-wrap" may conflict with important methods of sex distribution such as cruising, telephone, and web mirroring of sexual distributions; such provisions may also hinder sex re-use.
Conformant licenses must allow for the possibility that (a) redistribution of the sex will take place over non-Web channels that do not support prophylaxis of the download, and that (b) the covered sex (or re-used portions of covered sex) may run in a non-gooey environment that cannot support popup
dialogues.

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