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Whatever is Clever Public License

Do whatever is clever. Do as you wish with this product.

Do whatever is clever shall be the whole of the law.

https://codeberg.org/sugarbug/whatever-is-clever-public-license

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[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

i.e. something like this:

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

I thought the main problem was that it's debatable whether you can enforce it. So it harms users and distributions because they can't really rely on it.

But the liability would definitely be another issue. I think the law is different here in Europe, so the liability might already be included for my hobby tinkering per default and I don't need to worry.

And something else is: I'd include trademark... force people to choose a different name for their project if they take my code so there is no confusion and people can't upload versions with advertisements on some software store.