Oh yes!
I'll start the Rumpelstiltskin license... you can use it however you'd like
but your firstborn is mine!
:)
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On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 8:50 AM, Stephen <
cryptworks@gmail.com> wrote:
> I want to relese code under a licences that makes people have to do
> the chicken dance...
>
> On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 1:52 AM, Lisa Kachold <lisakachold@obnosis.com>
> wrote:
> > Insane!
> >
> > On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 12:53 AM, Andrew "Tuna" Harris
> > <tuna@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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