I suggest that you read through the archives of the debian-legal mailing list to see how far the rabbit hole can go. Custom licenses are frequently fraught wit

I suggest that you read through the archives of the debian-legal mailing list to see how far the rabbit hole can go. Custom licenses are frequently fraught with problems that make them non-free by the DFSG (which also happens to be the template for the Open Source Definition). From from extreme hubris, it is a valuable service that they provide to the community. Thanks to them, its easy and practical to pick from a spectrum of open source licenses that reflect your views as an author. Its also easy for you as a consumer to evaluate the usability of some piece of source code when the author chose from that same spectrum.