ErikMcClure/bad-licenses: A compendium of absurd "open-source" licenses.
ErikMcClure/bad-licenses: A compendium of absurd "open-source" licenses.
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Overwatch License
Modification of the source code is only allowed if your competitive rank in Overwatch is higher than the maintainer's.
The [true] Unlicense License Copyright (c) No one. You shouldn't be seeing this. Permission is hereby denied, without possible charge, to any person illegally obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software") to not interact with the Software at all, not look at the source code at all, and to not possess a copy, INCLUDING not having the right to run, execute or use the Software in any way. The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall not be included in copies or substantial portions of the Software, since you aren't supposed to see this anyway. THE SOFTWARE IS **NOT** PROVIDED AT ALL, WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN ALL EVENTS SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS HAVE A RIGHT TO HOLD YOU LIABLE FOR BREAKING THE LICENSE, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN ILLEGAL CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER QUESTIONABLE DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE ``Perfect! My shitty code qualifies as a cognitohazard, so nobody should be seeing it anyways.
That there's no please-ignore-this-license license?
I like the hot potato license, but granting commit rights only to inhabitants of the milky way galaxy is too restrictive.
I suppose in about 4.5 billion years the Andromedans can start committing also. (That or nobody can since it won't be the Milky Way any more)
yeah, either that or none of the Milkdromeda inhabitants will be able to commit
Assuming you are gay, have never committed a crime in your life and have illegally used software licensed with the "Be gay, do crime" license, you would have committed a crime, but because you did, you would have been following the license, which would mean you havent committed a crime, creating a paradox
Civil matter, not a crime.
sltar License
Using this software requires giving your first child to the author so that they can "immolate it to the devil".
i'm feeling the urge to hide this clause in one of my projects. i'd change it to Rumpelstiltskin though.
There's no way this is how Rumpelstilzchen is spelled in English...
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IT IS. English takes every single French word, keeps its spelling but mangles the pronunciation but for Rumpelstilzchen the pronunciation is somehow more relevant than the spelling? It makes some sense, but the ending "stiltskin" is an abomination.
The meaning of "stilzchen" is "small stilt" by the way - so he should've be called "Grumblestilty" in English.
in a community I was in a while ago, there was a license someone used called the "anyone but Jeff license" which banned people named Jeff from using the Minecraft mod
Isn't the "passive aggressive licence" just MIT?
For comparison: comments about other licenses are available at https://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html
The Nuclear Waste Software License is brilliant. Not only does it make the right impact when publishing random write-only code, it's legally BSD so lawyers won't be up your arse about it. In fact, it only strengthens the warranty disclaimer.
Another license with vague requirements for not allowing anyone to use it for racist or bigoted purposes (who is deciding what counts as racist for the purpose of this license?)
Well the person who compiled this list is clearly a racist and queerphobic prick
He‘s kinda right though because assuming the person on the other end has the same exact ethics as you and won‘t use the software if they don‘t gives "Swiper, No Swiping" done in real life. I don‘t know if those licenses are really enforceable at all due to vague wording.
They are simply pointing out that "racist" and "bigoted" are just as ambiguous in the exact same way as the "evil", "harmful", "good", "negligent", "bad", "unethical" etc he mentions for the other licenses.
"bigot noun a person who is obstinately or unreasonably attached to a belief, opinion, or faction, especially one who is prejudiced against or antagonistic towards a person or people on the basis of their membership of a particular group."
If being a bigot is good/bad/evil/harmful/unethical or not depends entirely on who is calling you one, and what you or society thinks of them. If you think that just because someone is a MAGA/Nazi/Tesla owner that they are bad, congratulations, you are a bigot.
Be Gay Do Crimes licence - seems to be good for gay people who live where being gay is a crime, unless one wishes not to out themselves by their choice of licence
Winamp Collaborative License
A "source-available" license that says you can't fork the project, which means it is illegal to click the fork button on GitHub (which is a violation of the GitHub ToS) and also makes it impossible to create any pull requests without push access to the original repo. Source
Oh yeah, I remember that whole fiasco from a few months back.