My Open Source (not officially so yet) License

[Stephen]

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 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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