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diff --git a/_posts/2021-09-29-anti-license-manifesto.md b/_posts/2021-09-29-anti-license-manifesto.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..9f5ce38 --- /dev/null +++ b/_posts/2021-09-29-anti-license-manifesto.md @@ -0,0 +1,25 @@ +--- +title: An Anti-License Manifesto +--- + +software licenses are unavoidably a legal tool. +the legal system, in the US and approximately everywhere else, is not a machine that leads to justice. +therefore, software licenses do not lead to justice. + +we cannot software license our way to a better world. +as such, we should and must software license our way to a *stranger* world. +permissive licenses and copyleft licenses are both tools of the corporate status quo. +we therefore reject all conventional software licenses, and instead champion the weird, the experimental, the decorative, the hostile, the absurd, the useless, the straight up unhinged. + +some anti-licenses: +- [Bouke van der Bijl's untitled license for `monkey`](https://github.com/bouk/monkey/blob/b118a17387657e860bb85a0f3dafd15cad03c266/LICENSE.md) +- [Ben Keith's Fight Club License](https://github.com/benlk/misc-licenses/blob/7070c779b922ff6e98d96ff20d407a91ca1b0231/fight-club-license.md) +- [Ben Keith's Schrödinger License](https://github.com/benlk/misc-licenses/blob/7070c779b922ff6e98d96ff20d407a91ca1b0231/schrodinger-license.md) +- [Ben Keith's Mephistopheles License](https://github.com/benlk/misc-licenses/blob/7070c779b922ff6e98d96ff20d407a91ca1b0231/mephistopheles-license.md) +- [Andrew "Tuna" Williamson's Chicken Dance License](https://github.com/supertunaman/cdl/blob/f0ae734f4abce311070ac0c401dbc0230cbc4344/COPYING) +- [why the lucky stiff's Death and Repudiation License](https://github.com/indeyets/syck/blob/2656dcc9e879a26e0d7c36ae45f22150d2692ad0/COPYING#L26-L53) +- [Joseph Redmon's YOLO LICENSE](https://github.com/pjreddie/darknet/blob/2f1fc380e950a29910ae011d61929ecd16baa62e/LICENSE) +- [Rain's Overwatch License](https://github.com/ErikMcClure/bad-licenses/blob/04fafc7f0701faf5616d7f531e3c02801e3dc8c8/overwatch) +- [the Bantown public license](https://github.com/ErikMcClure/bad-licenses/blob/04fafc7f0701faf5616d7f531e3c02801e3dc8c8/Bantown-public-license) +- [Xe's Be Gay Do Crimes License](https://github.com/Xe/waifud/blob/e7de416dbc0c14cf29e50b24e2d6337881294da9/LICENSE) +- [my Fuck Bitches Get Money License](https://paste.sr.ht/~boringcactus/f7ad59d5e244418787ced364df669dcf537d9662) |