My Open Source (not officially so yet) License

[Andrew "Tuna" Harris]

Excerpts from Alan Dayley (PHX Linux UG)'s message of Wed May 06 15:30:42 -0700 2009:
> 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.  ;^)
>
TrollTech used to demand piles of money from software companies that wanted
to use their Qt toolkit in their proprietary stuff, and they still do if
they don't dynamically link to the libs. I ask for a little dance.

> 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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