ErikMcClure/bad-licenses: A compendium of absurd "open-source" licenses.
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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.
i'm feeling the urge to hide this clause in one of my projects. i'd change it to Rumpelstiltskin though.
Are you sure EA or Ubisoft didn't already beat you to it? Lol
they don't take your firstborn but go straight for your soul instead
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.
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
Oh yeah, I remember that whole fiasco from a few months back.
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.
Can you maybe explain that last sentence?
"A bigot is someone intolerant of others' differing ideas, races, genders, religions, politics, etc."
I am very intolerant of the differing ideas of nazis, the far right, the westboro baptist church etc, so from their point of view, I'm a bigot.