Once upon a time I distributed some software free for anyone to use or redistribute, except for Elliotte Harold. Frankly I don't think it had the requisite originality to even qualify for copyright protection, but that didn't stop a couple of panicked publishers from reaching out for waivers and being less than 100% satisfied when I sent them signed, snail mail letters attesting to my belief that it lacked requisite originality. (The Zen InterSLIP dialing script.)
The “Anyone But Richard Stallman License” is pretty funny.
Not only he’s the only one who has to care/respect the license… he’s also the only one who would do so in the first place
The Human Virtual Machine License is missing?
Basically, any instance of the license coming to effect (a execution) would try to use the license taker to execute a behaviour program and ammend his suggestions to the license.
The one i saw in the wild tried to make me steal paperclips, for whatever reason.
Of course, it begs the question if such a clause remains open source (as it will effectively discriminate based on country). But defending open source developers in a hostile environment should take precedence over cooperation.
It's just unfortunate that such measures seem necessary (looks at the EU's CRA).
Maybe an urban legend but I believe a big player had to explicitly ask for the permission of using the software for Evil since they were redistributing it and could not guarantee that the final users would use it for Good.
Is one of these the hilarious license preventing use by ICE (the US govt agency) that someone unilaterally applied to a large work with multiple copyright holders? Okay the license wasn't that funny but the situation was.
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[ 5.3 ms ] story [ 42.5 ms ] threadWill be nice to point also to the software which has those licences.
But oh boy, I hope my new licenses [1] won't end up on this list.
(They're not done yet; please wait until then at least!)
[1]: https://yzena.com/licenses/
Of course, it begs the question if such a clause remains open source (as it will effectively discriminate based on country). But defending open source developers in a hostile environment should take precedence over cooperation.
It's just unfortunate that such measures seem necessary (looks at the EU's CRA).
Maybe an urban legend but I believe a big player had to explicitly ask for the permission of using the software for Evil since they were redistributing it and could not guarantee that the final users would use it for Good.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-hCimLnIsDA
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