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NEW FREE CULTURE LICENSES
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by Case Duckworth
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Free culture licensing is its own special bugbear. While pioneers like the GPL, ISC, and WTFPL have served their purpose, with the advent of source-available but non-libre licenses and ensnaring of public works by corporate interests, it's time we take a new tack.
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To that end, I propose a license from what I call the "Poison Pill" class. These are licenses that are so nonsensical that any entity with an actual legal department won't use them out of terror; however, normal, every day people have no such strict adherence to legalese and can enjoy them as the art they are in themselves. In this submission, I've included four such licenses.
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You may use any of these licenses for any project forever. You can't hold me responsible if a copyright lawyer falls in love with you, though.
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FIGHT CLUB PUBLIC LICENSE.
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This Software is free to use and modify, provided the following conditions are met:
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1. You don't talk about its License.
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2. YOU DO NOT TALK ABOUT ITS LICENSE.
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3. If someone yells stop, goes limp, taps out, you must stop using the Software.
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4. Only two guys may use a single copy of the License.
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5. Only one copy of the License may be in use at any time.
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6. No shirts, no shoes.
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7. Use of the Software will go on as long as it has to.
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8. If this is your first time using the Software, you must abide by its License.
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1993 LICENSE.
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This Software is the property of <AUTHOR>. Its use, modification, and redistribution are completely restricted unless the Licensee meets the following criteria:
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1. Born after 1993
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2. Be Bisexual
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3. Eat Hot Chip
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4. Charge they Phone
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5. Lie
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PET ROCK PUBLIC LICENSE, version 1.0.
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This license is released under the ROCK RELEASE PUBLIC LICENSE, version 1.0 or higher. You may use it in your projects provided you follow the stipulations in the RRPL.
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The attached Work is free to use, modify, redistribute, or otherwise abuse, provided the following conditions are met:
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1. You must adopt a stray rock.
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ROCK RELEASE PUBLIC LICENSE, version 1.0.
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This license is released under the PET ROCK PUBLIC LICENSE, version 1.0 or higher. You may use it in your projects provided you follow the stipulations in the PRPL.
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The attached Work is free to use, modify, redistribute, or otherwise improve, provided the following conditions are met:
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1. You must release a captive rock into the wild.*
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* (We suggest throwing it at a tree.)
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If you've enjoyed these licenses and would like to see more like them, visit my compendium at <https://funputer.biz/licenses>. I am also aware of a list at <https://git.tilde.town/dozens/licenses>, if you can't wait for me to get my act together.
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Also, if you think of or discover another, please email me at <acdw at acdw dot net> or otherwise contact me for its inclusion in the compendium. Together we can make our works unusable by corporate interests!
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