A new license proposal

[X Ryl]

Hi,

  I'm new to license and stuff. However, I'm not new to programming.
I've a project where I would like to share the source code, allow
others, who might get interested, to contribute and still sell
commercial licenses for the project.

Typically, other projects with similar goals provides a dual licensing
(GPL license / commercial licensing).

I dislike this, because the other developers who might contribute
don't see any returns on their personal investments in the project
itself (typically, when dual licensing applies, there is a special
clause requiring to deny your expectation on the commercial license
fee).

So, I came with the following (new) license, allowing GPL like usage
of the source code, and still share any license incomes with the
developers who have contributed/still contribute.

I don't know if it's the right place to post this, I haven't seen any
group discussing about licenses.
Let me know about what you think about this.

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             UZI PUBLIC LICENSE
          Version 1, September 2007

    Copyright (C) 2007 Cyril Russo, Marseilles, France

 Please copy and distribute verbatim copies of this license document.
 Changing this license text is not allowed except for the Annexed
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Preamble
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  This license describes new freedom rules for software creators,
  users, and distributors. Nowadays, there is plenty of open-source,
copyleft licenses,
  and permissive licenses.
  While the former allows freedom to share and change free software,
it prohibits
  or highly limits source code usage and sharing in commercial
application.
  Permissive licenses allow any kind of usage, including allowing free
software secret
  usage in commercially sold product.

  This license still warranty freedom of sharing and changing free
software, while still
  allowing usage of the software by commercial companies provided the
company purchased
  a commercial license when used in closed-source or proprietary
products.

  Unlike current dual-licensing scheme of many open-source friendly
company (GPL and
  commercial license), this license is about sharing incomes from the
company-purchased
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     1) The number of author's code lines (A), not including comments,
not including
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     2) The number of author's comment lines (B) in functional
prototype declaration
     3) The number of author's comment lines (C) in functional
implementation
     4) The quality and quantity of author's external work (D),
including external documentation,
        artwork, marketing.

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category is divided by the project
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own AP.X = (Author.X / Sum.X)
    part of the considered category (X being A, B, or C).

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    The license fee (LF) is divided in 5 parts which are :
      LA: 35% for the source code (category A)
      LB: 20% for the prototype comments (category B)
      LC: 15% for the implementation comments (category C)
      LD: 25% for the external work (category D)
      LX: 5% for exceptional charges (project maintenance for one)

    Each author remuneration is then (AP.A * LA + AP.B * LB + AP.C *
LC + AP.D * LD).

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bill of the computed
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under his/her citizenship.

    A minimum amount can be decided, at project creation or bank
change, before the remuneration
    is rewarded, in case transfering the amount is more expensive than
the amount itself.

    Amount transfer fee (bank fees) are removed from the remuneration
before payment.
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    An author can decide to deny his/her remuneration.
    In that case, his/her contribution is removed from the project
sums for (A, B, C, D) categories.
    The remaining authors' remuneration is then re-evaluated with
project's updated
    amounts as described above.

    The license fee part-proportion can be revaluated if a
proportional vote decides so.
    A proportional vote is a vote where each author voice is
proportional to his/her total
    contribution such that
        Author's Vote value = (AP.A + AP.B + AP.C + AP.D) /
SumOfEvery(AP.A + AP.B + AP.C + AP.D)
    The majority to this vote is required for the voted modification
to be accepted.

    Every new author contribution should be reviewed by active authors
before merging or including
    the contribution.

    If an author deny his/her contribution at that time, the
contribution is flagged as authorless
    and is not included in the project sums.

    If an author claims ownership of a contribution, he/she has to
prove his/her ownership by any manner.
    It's recommended to post contribution in a public manner (mailing
list, forum, signed code).
    If an argument can't be solved legitimately, a vote can decide the
owner of a contribution.
    In any case, any contribution not argued 3 month after inclusion
is considered legitimate,
    and can't be argued later on.

    The aim of this license is to be as fair as possible while still
protecting author's rights.

                     END OF TERMS AND CONDITIONS
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One of the doubt I have is about the licensing terms (which look like
a contract) inside a license -probably does not fit under the same law
I guess-