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_g0wg | 6 months ago

I was honestly never sure how much of a joke or how serious I wanted it to be. I do intend on using my own license for my own code, and those are more-or-less the terms I place on who can use my software and who can't. I don't want my stuff being used for profit or to harm people. If someone came and asked me "hey can I use your X for Y", this document is the things I'd tell them no about.

I explicitly reject legalism and fully intend on having as a condition of the license that it cannot be interpreted by legal professionals, and I fully intend on it being invalid in a court of law, and I fully intend on never trying to enforce it.

Those are "serious" stances of mine, but a consequence of having those views is that I can't truly take this class of document seriously. I already knew it was useless to follow legal protocol to the letter in my license since it's inadmissible, so I thought why not have some fun with it.

A lot of the weird characters are vaguely related to the concept on that line of the license. The 3/5 symbol is the index for the anti-social-hierarchy clause. The lambda is the symbol for the recursive (infectious) license clause. The $ is the anti-money clause. And so on... Not all of them are related to something, some I couldn't find any good symbol for.

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