Okay so I've been aware of it before, and always kind of avoided the issue. But accumulation of projects and what not have forced me to conclude that I ought to explicitly license my code. In reviewing most of the licenses on opensource.org I came to the conclusion that:
  • most are exceedingly wordy (Mmmm 500% RDA legalese)
  • restrictive (even MIT, I don't need somebody to propgate my "Copyright" notice, it's not supposed to be a worm)
    • So I conceived of the following:
    Thou shalt not claim ownership of unmodified materials.
    Thou shalt not claim whole ownership of modified materials.
    Thou shalt grant the indemnity of the provider of materials.
    Thou shalt use and dispense freely without other restrictions.
    So my question is, what do people think? I know it's not exactly formal, but the intent should be clear as day, it's also kind of a playful nudge in the ribs concerning other licenses. If it's insufficient or inappropriate what would you suggest? All I wish to convey is: I'm happy if somebody uses something I write, unhappy if they claim it's theirs.

    UPDATE: s/accept/grant/m; Fixed the title regexp

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    perl -pe "s/\b;([st])/'\1/mg"

    In reply to ~OT Licens(?:es)|(?:ing) by belg4mit

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