My Open Source (not officially so yet) License

[Alan Dayley]

It's a funny idea to think about, even be good for a joke or prank.

It's silly to think anyone would accept it as a legitimate license
condition to do a dance.

It would also make you look unprofessional not to be taken seriously.
But then maybe that is what you want.  ;^)

Alan

On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 2:59 PM, Andrew "Tuna" Harris
<tuna at supertunaman.com> wrote:
> Excerpts from cryptworks's message of Wed May 06 08:50:05 -0700 2009:
>> I want to relese code under a licences that makes people have to do
>> the chicken dance...
>>
> Wait until I finish it and get it OSI approved.
>
> Does anyone have any thoughts, suggestions?
>
>> On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 1:52 AM, Lisa Kachold <lisakachold at obnosis.com> wrote:
>> > Insane!
>> >
>> > On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 12:53 AM, Andrew "Tuna" Harris
>> > <tuna at supertunaman.com> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> Helloes.
>> >>
>> >> I am working on an open source license of my very own. Basically, I
>> >> think IP is just ridiculous (inb4 flameware. No. NO. NO!), so I'm
>> >> creating a license that is less restrictive than the GPL (you don't HAVE
>> >> to redistribute full source code), but provides me with more lulz than
>> >> the BSD license. I like the BSD license, in an egocentric world it's
>> >> one of the few things that makes sense. Unfortunately, it doesn't spit
>> >> back at people like I sometimes wish it did.
>> >>
>> >> So, I added a clause to the BSD license, and the result is the Chicken
>> >> Dance License! Info and the license text are available here:
>> >> http://bit.ly/DOnV9
>> >>
>> >> For those of you who are afraid of compressed URLs or behind a corporate
>> >> firewall, my license pretty much has the following conditions for
>> >> proprietary stuff:
>> >>
>> >> - For every thousand units sold, half or more of the employees must
>> >>        listen to the Chicken Dance
>> >> - For every million, two employees have to perform the chicken dance,
>> >>        and a video of it (encoded in OGG Theora format) must be
>> >>        submitted to the author of the CDL-license software
>> >> - Nobody with the company that produces the proprietary software may say
>> >>        the word "plinth" out in public.
>> >>
>> >> For non-proprietary stuff, it's just the BSD license.
>> >>
>> >> Does it match up with the Open Source Definition? As far as I can tell,
>> >> it seems to. I'm not asking for money or power, just a little dance.
>> >>
>> >> Thoughts? I'm all ears. Just no flamewars plz kthx.
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