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A compendium of absurd "open-source" licenses.

6 mentions on Hacker News by 6 people: 4 stories, 2 comments · first 2021-09-08 · latest 2025-02-23

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    A compendium of "open-source" licenses
    story by carlos-menezes · 2025-02-23 · 16 comments
  2. …two-clause BSD license, but I pity the fool who tries to get their legal department to approve it. https://github.com/ErikMcClure/bad-licenses/blob/master/NWSL (The repository has a couple of other amusing licenses which you may wish to…
  3. "Don't ask me about it License" looks a bit shorter[0]. 0: https://github.com/ErikMcClure/bad-licenses/blob/master/dont...
    comment by kotborealis · 2024-01-15 · in Htmx changes license to Zero-Clause BSD
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    A compendium of funny, and downright bad licenses
    story by politelemon · 2023-10-25 · 14 comments
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    Bad-licenses: A compendium of open-source licenses
    story by olalonde · 2023-09-14 · 1 comment
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    A compendium of absurd, funny, and downright bad licenses
    story by blackhole · 2021-09-08 · 0 comments