You're a mad hatter, Tuna. What will the world be coming to if OSi approves it? On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 12:53 AM, Andrew "Tuna" Harris 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. > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > -- Thanks and best regards, Ryan Rix TamsPalm - The PalmOS Blog (623)-239-1103 <-- Grand Central, baby! Jasmine Bowden - Class of 2009, Marc Rasmussen - Class of 2008, Erica Sheffey - Class of 2009, Rest in peace.