Educational. Community-driven. Source-available. Creator-protected.
A community-source license designed for developers who want
people to learn, study, modify, and contribute openly while
allowing creators to maintain fair control over attribution,
branding, commercialization, and public distribution of
their work.
Many developers want to share their projects publicly for
education, experimentation, research, and collaboration
without allowing others to commercially exploit, misrepresent,
or profit from their work without permission.
XCSL was created to support open learning, visible source
sharing, community contribution, and sustainable creator
protection while still giving project owners flexibility
to customize project-specific terms and requirements.
| Category | Status |
|---|---|
| Source Available | ✅ Yes |
| Open Source (OSI Approved) | ❌ No |
| Commercial Use | ❌ Restricted |
| Modification | ✅ Allowed |
| Public Source Sharing | ✅ Required |
| Private Modification | ✅ Allowed |
| Attribution Required | ✅ Yes |
| Same-License Distribution | ✅ Yes |
| Creator Commercial Control | ✅ Yes |
| License Reuse | ✅ Allowed |
| Custom Project Terms | ✅ Allowed |
XCSL is designed for:
- Educational and learning projects
- Community-source software
- Research and experimental tools
- Public-source indie software
- Developer collaboration projects
- Creator-controlled public projects
- Source-sharing projects with protected commercial rights
XCSL focuses on balancing community learning with creator protection.
It allows people to:
- Study source code
- Learn from projects
- Modify and improve software
- Publicly share modifications with source access
- Build collaborative communities
While also helping creators:
- Prevent unauthorized commercialization
- Protect project identity and branding
- Prevent work stealing and authorship misrepresentation
- Maintain control over commercial rights
- Customize project-specific attribution and rules
This license was intentionally designed to be reusable and adaptable for other projects.
Project owners may:
- Reuse this license
- Modify project-specific attribution sections
- Add custom rules or permissions
- Add commercial terms or contributor requirements
- Customize project identity information
However, modified versions should:
- Credit XCSL as the original base license
- Clearly indicate changed terms
- Avoid conflicting with existing core license protections
- Not falsely claim official association with XPR Group Corporation
XCSL is NOT an OSI-approved open-source license.
This is a source-available community license focused on
education, collaboration, visible source sharing, and fair
creator protection.
Commercial rights remain controlled by the original creator,
copyright holder, or authorized project owners unless
explicit permission is granted.
Any suggestions or questions:
Email: xprgroupcorporation@gmail.com
This repository and license text are provided for
informational and educational purposes only.
This is not legal advice.