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Unlicense Yourself: Set Your Code Free
- wmf 17y agoIMO the disadvantages of license proliferation outweigh the benefits of "unlicensing". MIT/BSD licenses are already compatible with everything. If you really want to avoid "enriching lawyers" you shouldn't invent new (un)licenses, since many companies will require the unlicense to be lawyer-approved before they'll touch it. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/License_proliferation http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/License_proliferation
- jdanndc 17y agoI've always appreciated the blessing in SQLite: Instead of a license, the SQLite source code offers a blessing: " May you do good and not evil May you find forgiveness for yourself and forgive others May you share freely, never taking more than you give. " http://www.sqlite.org/different.html http://www.sqlite.org/different.html
- zb 17y agoI was under the impression that this is generally considered a bad idea because copyright law in some countries does not recognise the concept of a "public domain" (i.e. you can't disavow copyright even if you want to). I don't know if that's correct, but if so it would seem that something like the ISC (or modified BSD) license would be superior.