Currently in the Free and Open Source software communities, companies, 
businesses, and individuals, call a variant of the GNU operating system, 
when used with the Linux Kernel, a "Distribution", "Distro", or 
sometimes incorrectly, a "Linux Distribution." Software that is licensed 
under the GNU GPL is considered "Free Software" by the GPL, while 
some call Free Software "Open Source" software, for the sake of avoiding 
the politics associated with  the term. The Author's Choice of Terminology 
License aims to separate these two terms via restrictions to the 
modification of the software, restricting modification to the terms used.

When people write about Free and Open Source software, most people 
already follow a simple guideline, which is referring to the software in 
terms the author and the software's advocates prefer. This behavior is more 
appropriate than referring to all the software by one term, despite what 
the authors prefer their work be called.

The Author's Choice of Terminology License, with much more needed 
development, would ensure this behavior, by restricting the distributor of 
the author's software to the terminology chosen for it, either GNU/Linux, 
Linux, Lignux, Free Software or Open Source.

Note: After emailing Richard Stallman we have decided that all 
development on the ACT license is to be stopped. Richard pointed out that 
it is incompatible with the GNU GPL version 2. To sub-license the GNU 
GPL version 2 with the ACT license will automatically terminate your 
rights as a result of section 1 and section 4 under the GNU GPL version 
2. Why we started the Author's Choice of Terminology License was to 
allow people to have their Free Software represented by their advocated 
or preferred terminology.

The ACTL can still be used with other licenses, including many 
permissive licenses. It could also be used with a proprietary license, but 
in doing so you would be destroying the very principles we were developing 
the license on. 

Unless compatibility with the GNU GPL changes, 
the ACT license is discontinued.

-On behalf of a few dozen developers and InaTux.
Thank you.