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A friend of mine recently burned out on maintaining open-source software and communities, and had been half-joking for a while that they wanted a sassy license to the effect of "I release this code for free, take it or leave it, or go do it yourself".

Tonight I wrote that license for and with him. Please enjoy the "Fork Off" Public License, v0.9: https://github.com/klardotsh/fork-off-public-license

(I'll tag a v1.0 after any feedback y'all might have to clarify things or make it funnier. Forking it is also of course ok.)

Like 16 Nov 2022 at 9:32 | Open on merveilles.town

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tired blip

Credit where due, some top inspirations for this license were:

- _why's Death and Repudiation License [1]
- Don't Ask Me About It License [2]
- WTFPL 2.0 [3]

[1] https://github.com/indeyets/syck/blob/2656dcc9e879a26e0d7c36ae45f22150d2692ad0/COPYING#L26-L53
[2] https://tldrlegal.com/license/the-don't-ask-me-about-it-license#fulltext
[3] http://www.wtfpl.net/txt/copying/

16 Nov 2022 at 9:46 | Open on merveilles.town

Gina Häußge

@klardotsh After a particularly exhausting three years, I'm almost tempted to dual-license @octoprint under this...

Thanks for the laugh, I needed it :)

16 Nov 2022 at 12:07 | Open on chaos.social