Cleanup

- Remove intro section
- Improve verbiage of LAGPL3
- Remove CC BY-SA 4

LICENSE.TXT

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-                              § Copyright §
+                               § LAGPL3 §
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-Except where otherwise stated, everything in this file is legally binding to
-the greatest extents allowed by law.
+           PROVISIONAL LESSER AFFERO GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE
+                       Version 3, 8 April 2023
+
+ Copyright (C) 2023 to Miles Bradley Huff and ChatGPT4.
+ Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies
+ of this license document, but changing it is not allowed.
 
-For the purposes of this file, a "section" is defined as the area vertically
-between two '§' signs, and each section's name being the text horizontally
-between the '§' sign immediately above the section.  This definition of
-"section" does not apply to the use of the word "section" in any section except
-for this section, the "Copyright" section.)
+                            Preamble
 
-The LGPL3 and AGPL3 are provided in-full and verbatim, with each in its own
-section.  Where contradictions occur, certain sections will override others per
-the following pattern, with sections coming earlier in the list clobbering
-sections later in the list:  Copyright, LAGPL3, LGPL3, AGPL3.
+  This License, the Provisional Lesser Affero General Public License v3.0
+(pLAGPL3), is intended to combine the terms and conditions of the GNU Affero
+General Public License v3.0 (AGPL3) with the permissive linking and dynamic
+loading provisions of the GNU Lesser General Public License v3.0 (LGPL3). Its
+primary goal is to patch the SaaS Loophole in the LGPL3, in order to require
+those who use this Program on a server to contribute source code back to the
+Program.
 
-Except where otherwise stated, all files in this project are Copyright © to the
-developer(s) of this project (defined as all sentient beings who have blame for
-a commit in this project's version-control history) in proportion to their
-contributions, from the date of the most recent edit to this project, per the
-terms of the the LAGPL 3.0 (the GNU Lesser Affero General Public License 3.0).
+  This License is provided under the terms laid-out in Section 7 (Additional
+Terms) of the AGPL3 and the GPL3.
 
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-                               § LAGPL3 §
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+                       TERMS AND CONDITIONS
+
+  This License incorporates by reference the terms and conditions of the AGPL3
+and LGPL3, including all their definitions, requirements, and restrictions,
+with the following modifications and additions:
+
+  0. Additional Definitions.
+
+  "AGPL3" refers to version 3 of the GNU Affero General Public License.
+
+  "GPL3" refers to version 3 of the GNU General Public License.
+
+  "LGPL3" refers to version 3 of the GNU Lesser General Public License.
 
-Since the LGPL3 explicitly calls for the GPL3, rather than the AGPL3, and since
-both the AGPL3 and LGPL3 prohibit direct modification, an addendum is necessary
-in order to meld the two together.  This addendum cannot be taken as violating
-the verbatim requirement of the AGPL3 or LGPL3, as section 7 of the AGPL3 and
-GPL3 licenses allow developers to add or remove restrictions at will, and that
-is exactly what is being done here:  the additional permissions of the LGPL are
-being added to the AGPL.  Even without section 7, the fact that the LGPL3 is
-designed to act as an addendum to the likewise verbatim-locked GPL3 and the fact
-that its use in that capacity is widely considered legal, is precedent enough
-for the legal legitimacy of the addendums below.
-
-The following addendums override the relevant portions of the AGPL3 and LGPL3:
-* Every instance of "GPL" in the LGPL3 is to be taken to mean "AGPL".
-* Every instance of "GNU General Public License" in the LGPL3 is to be
-  interpreted as "GNU Affero General Public License"
-* This project's VCS repo's blame is to be considered adequate fulfillment of
-  any attribution requirements.
-
-The following boilerplate text should, ideally, be included towards the top of
-any source-code file licensed as LAGPL3:
-  "Copyright © from the date of the last VCS commit to this file in this VCS
-  branch, by all persons with VCS blame to this file in this VCS branch, per the
-  terms of the GNU AGPL 3 with the additional allowances of the GNU LGPL 3."
+  "LAGPL" refers to any version of a hypothetical GNU Lesser Affero General
+Public License.
+
+  "pLAGPL3" refers to version 3 of the Provisional Lesser Affero General
+Public License (this very license).
+
+  "This License" refers to the pLAGPL3.
+
+  1. Changes of Reference.
+
+  All references to the GPL3 in the LGPL3 are to be taken to be references to
+the AGPL3, instead.
+
+  2. Compatibility with the GNU LAGPL.
+
+  Should an official LAGPL ever be released, it should be viewed as fully
+compatible with this pLAGPL3 license; and any work licensed under the pLAGPL3
+may be freely relicensed to the LAGPL.
+
+  3. Disclaimer of Warranty
+
+  THIS LICENSE IS PROVIDED AS-IS, WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND.
+
+  Please refer to section 15 of the AGPL3 for additional disclaimers.
+
+  4. Limitation of Liability.
+
+  THE AUTHORS OF THIS LICENSE DISCLAIM ALL LIABILITY FOR ANY ISSUES THAT MAY
+ARISE FROM ITS USE OR INTERPRETATION.
+
+  Please refer to section 16 of the AGPL3 for additional limitations.
+
+                     END OF TERMS AND CONDITIONS
 
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                                 § AGPL3 §