Who told you that reading a license is boring?
In the last 24 hours I implemented Licenses validation, whitelisting, masking and database support to Entropy. When I started, I tried to find out if someone (maybe crazy like me?) had already made a list of free (as in freedom and/or beer) software licenses. I didn’t dig too much and decided to have a look at /usr/portage/licenses. OMG, 811 licenses to read! Yeah, I read them all and I’ve found something really funny. So, Who told ya that reading a license is boring? Who told me that reading 811 licenses took half a day? Well, nobody (apart from netvandal – our beloved “Michele”).
ZOO license: (moooo! WTF, 1200bps!??!? And what’s all that “compiled” non-sense?)
- You are prohibited from making this program available for
downloading via telecommunications if you charge a total of
more than $7.00 per hour at 1200 bps.
- You are prohibited from distributing this program as compiled
code unless you also distribute the source code from which
the compiled code was derived. This restriction does not
apply if the compiled code was created by me.
- The above restrictions may be relaxed by special agreement;
please contact me for details.
7plus license (HAM HAM HAM, No way, No read. No nothing. Okay??):
*** 7PLUS is HAMWARE. No commercial use. No Sale. Pass on only in it's
*** entirety! There is no warranty for the proper functioning. Use at own
*** risk.
***
*** TABSIZE when editing: 2; don't insert real TABs (^I), use spaces instead.
***
*** When porting or modifying this source, make SURE it can still be compiled
*** on all systems! Do this by using #ifdef directives! Please let me know
*** about the modifications or portations, so I can include them in the origi-
*** nal 7PLUS source.
3ware License (get that software and discover these REALLY IMPORTANT trade secrets please!):
The software contains trade secrets and in order to protect them,
you may not de-compile, reverse engineer, disassemble, or otherwise reduce the
3ware Software to a human-perceivable form.
ZendFramework-1.1 (Did you know…?)
* Neither the name of Zend Technologies USA, Inc. nor the names of its
contributors may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this
software without specific prior written permission.
ZBL: ZIWTRA B00GIE LICENSE (ZBL) – (Translated: I am not guilty of making a horrible software)
2. You are not required to give credit to the original author.
YAZ (Remember, never write “index data” on your brochures):
* 2. The names of Index Data or the individual authors may not be used to
* endorse or promote products derived from this software without specific
* prior written permission.
xv (Note, I am going to change this comment before tomorrow at 9.00am. But the most important thing, is that we WANT MONEY, not your pathetic $50):
(Note: This has been changed, and hopefully clarified, from the 3.00
version of this info. Please read it.)
The latest version of XV (or at least a pointer to it) is available
via anonymous ftp on ftp.cis.upenn.edu, in the directory pub/xv. If
you're not sure if you have the latest version, or you are missing the
source or documentation for XV, PLEASE pick up the latest version of
the xv distribution. Do *not* send mail unless absolutely necessary
(ie, you don't have ftp capability).
This does *not* mean that you are required to register XV just because
you play with it on the workstation in your office. This falls under
the heading of 'personal use'. If you are a sysadmin, you can put XV
up in a public directory for your users amusement. Again, 'personal
use', albeit plural.
On the other hand, if you use XV in the course of doing your work,
whatever your 'work' may happen to be, you *must* register your
copy of XV. (Note: If you are a student, and you use XV to do
classwork or research, you should get your professor/teacher/advisor
to purchase an appropriate number of copies.)
Purchase orders for less than $50, while still accepted, are not
encouraged.
Please do *not* send electronic mail directly to the author, as he
gets more than enough as it is.
xtrans (I don’t accept your apologies!!! I will never do that!):
Our apologies if we missed anyone.
xshipwars (These ones have a modified modificating modificationing brain):
* Any modifications that you make (with the exception of individual or
partial distribution of compoents) must be accepted with written proof
by the authors -or- you may distribute with your modifications provided
that the modifications that you made are stated with reasonable
clarity along with the modified distribution.
xref.lisp (I’ve never used your software, it’s not that useful… (joking)):
This software is distributed in the hope that it will be useful (both
in and of itself and as an example of lisp programming)
xorg-xgml-doctools (It’s because they don’t give a shit man… it’s that simple! Someone should have told ya already):
This is a placeholder for a package whose license is not clear. Upstream has
not provided enough information to provide a license that covers this package.
If you're really interested, this placeholder usually only exists for smaller
packages and thus looking through the source code might reveal some copyrights
and other related information.
xorg-server (I had time to read 811 licenses, you don’t have time to read 2000 files, with probably the same header? So funny! ahah! In the end, you are right):
The normal process of generating licenses for modular X packages is to run
through all source files in an editor and copy all the copyright/license info
into the license file. However, in the case of xorg-server, there are almost
2000 source files. We're not paid enough to do that much work in a short
period of time.
xf86-video-vermilion (did ya know? history history history… No, it wasn’t history, it was “developers developers developers developers”):
Intel funded Tungsten Graphics (http://www.tungstengraphics.com) to
develop this driver.
WTFPL-2 (This is my favorite one):
DO WHAT THE FUCK YOU WANT TO PUBLIC LICENSE
Version 2, December 2004Copyright (C) 2004 Sam Hocevar
22 rue de Plaisance, 75014 Paris, France
Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim or modified
copies of this license document, and changing it is allowed as long
as the name is changed.DO WHAT THE FUCK YOU WANT TO PUBLIC LICENSE
TERMS AND CONDITIONS FOR COPYING, DISTRIBUTION AND MODIFICATION0. You just DO WHAT THE FUCK YOU WANT TO.
Volano (as in, where’s the [X] button?):
Please read the following Agreement carefully.
VIGRA (VIAGRA? Probably what they got before starting to write this. So, take note, you, is you, yes, you!):
"You" is you, if you're thinking about using, copying, modifying or
distributing this Library.
ut2003 (Thanks thanks thanks. WTF? For what? Licensing?? Cramp? Styple? Isn’t that a serious license?):
1. Thanks. Congratulations and thank you for licensing our
software. We're sorry to cramp your style, but out lawyers tell
us that if we want to keep control and ownership of the cool
stuff we're developing, we have to make sure you understand and
agree that you are just getting a right to use it and that that
right is limited in certain ways. So here's what follows is what
you need to know and agree to.
Trolltech PUL 1.0 (even trolltech has a restricted license, bah, boring, I could have left this out):
(1) This Trolltech Personal Use License ("License") applies to software,
applications, and electronic and/or printed documentation (the
"Software") in the Qtopia suite of applications.
SVFL (It’s very, very, very free. That’s the point):
"Scott's Very Free License"
No-Problem-Bugroff (Houston, we’ve a problem! This placed 2nd on my personal ranking):
The "No problem Bugroff" license.Richard Stallman of the Free Software Foundation devised, in addition
to some marvelous software, the GNU General Public License (GPL for
short). Or the CopyLeft it is sometimes called.It is quite a revolutionary document, using the “copyright” tool to to
protect your right to use free software.Unfortunately using copyright to protect free software is a lot like
using a Jackal to guard the hens.In fact, various inconveniences relating to this have resulted in
modifications such as the LGPL (Library General Public License) and
more recently the NPL (Netscape Public License)I call these matters mere inconveniences, the real damage will occur
when the Jackal’s, (sorry, I mean lawyers), actually get to test the
GPL in court for the first time.Thus enter my version.
Its very simple.
Entirely consistent.
Completely unrestrictive.
Easy to apply.
The “No problem Bugroff” license is as follows…
mekanix (WTF is the SMS Power cause??? Who doesn’t have a SEGA 8-bit cartridge nowadays…):
Thanks. In this case, if you want to help further development and support
the author, you are welcome to register MEKA.To do so, you will simply have to help the SMS Power cause. This can be
done by several ways. The first is to donate Sega 8-bit cartridges to us.
We would love that. Donating hardware is even more welcome. If you plan
to donate anything, be sure to e-mail me beforehand. And remember it is
not because a game or a system is common that I have it. I am actually
missing a billion of common game I would love to get.
BEER-WARE (My 3rd!!!!! This IS DA LICENSE. Approved by the Dutch ambassador Joost):
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* "THE BEER-WARE LICENSE" (Revision 42):
* <phk@login.dkuug.dk> wrote this file. As long as you retain this notice you
* can do whatever you want with this stuff. If we meet some day, and you think
* this stuff is worth it, you can buy me a beer in return. Poul-Henning Kamp
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