My Open Source (not officially so yet) License

[Andrew "Tuna" Harris]

Excerpts from danceswithcrows's message of Wed May 06 11:41:52 -0700 2009:
> > On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 12:53 AM, Andrew "Tuna" Harris wrote:
> >> - Nobody with the company that produces the proprietary software  
> >> may say the word "plinth" out in public.
> 
> This would also be interesting.  But would it be enforceable?  ISTR
> that there are plenty of problems with unenforceable contracts, and
> a judge who didn't like you or hadn't been paid off might use that as
> a means to declare the license invalid.  Then again, IANAL.
>
Well my mom talked to her lawyer-friend about the terms of my license
today. He thinks that it could be valid. He said that these contracts do
require action on somebody's part, and this is a reasonable enough
condition.

> From: Alex Dean <alex at crackpot.org>
> > "It is alleged that, on April 1 2015, Defendant did knowingly and with  
> > malice aforethought duplicate software programs and code licensed by  
> > Plaintiff, and did expressly failed to comply with Subsection 3.2.15  
> > (Chicken Dance), commonly referred to as the 'Dancing Clause'.   
> > Plaintiff seeks relief in the immediate performance of said Dance by  
> > Defendant."
> 
> Then it'd be available in the public record.  Neat.  I wonder how much
> silliness would happen if, say, the next release of libtiff was only
> available under the Chicken Dance License.
>