To clarify: These Licenses are intended not only for Software, but also for creative works of all kinds.
The git that has the latest version of each license is here All licenses version numbers from v7 onwards are shared and track the version number of the npl-builder project.
To ensure your project is able to apply fixes from newer versions of the NVPL or CNPL please add a "+" at the end of the license abbreviation, like either of these: NVPLv7+ CNPLv4+. You can also specify that you only want your work available under certain versions like so: NVPLv0,1 CNPLv0,1 (to make your work available under either version 0 or 1 of the License). It is highly recommended to keep up to date, but short of that, please only use versions 7 and above. This is so that when future project milestones are met, you automatically get the changes.
This is not license verbage or text, this is a summary. The Nonviolent Public License (NVPL / NVPL-NA) aims to ensure basic protections against forms of violence, coercion, and discrimination which creations are frequently leveraged for in the modern world. This license covers several formats of creative work but has extra terms for software given the power it has as a tool outside of its creative capacities.
The Cooperative Nonviolent Public License (CNPL) and CNPL-NA go further and only allow commercial use of the copyrighted work for individuals and worker-owned organizations.
The NVPL-NA and CNPL-NA licenses are variants of their namesakes which do not require attributions in derivative works. If that's your style.
Do try to ensure you search for any terms in caps, as they may have definitions earlier in the document.
Aplologies for the tech gore, but the latest version of all the clauses/definitions is available in a DocBook v5 XML file used as input for pandoc to make documents. That way all the license variants can be kept up to date in the same place. The repository doesn't always have up-to-date markdown documents with the licenses already built, so please check out template.xml in this project page and email me (thufie@riseup.net) or open an issue on the bug tracker if you spot any typos. I would discourage getting in contact if you just want to tell me I should have taken a different approach. But the enthusiasm and imagination can be put to your own use too! Make your own.
You cannot sell the licensed work as a "traditional company" (anything other than a non-worker-owned cooperative, so hierarchical cooperatives do not count). You can only commercially redistribute licensed works as an individual or as a worker-owned cooperative. Refer to the previous link above under the Commercial Restrictions heading for the exact wording.
Contact me on the project or my social media and I will add your project to this list.
The Nonviolent Public Licenses intentionally do not meet the Free Software Definition because of the restrictions put in place to protect others from violence aided by the use of the copyrighted work. "Freedom 0" is explicitly violated to afford these protections and prevent unethical usage of the program to actually Free Society.This license does preserve freedoms 1-3 and can be referred to as a "three freedoms" license. Similarly to the GNU AGPL this license has the additional requirement that server-side source code modifications to public-facing server software must be published for users as well as the usual expectations for FLOSS software with the exception of restrictions on Freedom 0 for ethical purposes.
I am not a Lawyer and this license has not yet been tried in a court of law. Portions of this license have seen legal review. If you are a lawyer and want to review this license to make the legal protections more robust please contact me with the information on my site's contact page.
kopimi ;P