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diff --git a/README.md b/README.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..36772f1 --- /dev/null +++ b/README.md @@ -0,0 +1,44 @@ +# Troll licenses + +A troll license can be used if you want to troll corporations (as well as anyone else who care too much about copyright) and prevent them from using your software. + +## Examples + +### No license + +The truly minimalist way of trolling corporations, not using a license will technically make your software proprietary but no one will give a fuck apart from corporations with too much paperwork and a few FOSS nerds, anyone normal will just know they can use the software. + +### wtfpl + +A true classic. Basically public domain equivalent but the crude wording give the ick to corpos with brooms up their arse. + +### +NIGGER + +A license modifier that forces users to have the word "nigger" in the license file, most well known intentionnal troll license. + +This one is so potent it might be forbidden on mainstream hosting providers (this is by design as the license was originally meant to combat censorship). + +### Pirate Only license + +My own troll license. The opposite of a free software license, deny every action possible in such a way that anything you might do with the software is copyright infringement. + +This licence got its own readme file (I was gonna release it as a standalone repo but then found it made more sense to just make one big repo with all the troll licenses). + +### GNU GPL + +The GNU GPL can be considered the OG troll license, the idea is to deny the possibility of making proprietary forks of your software. +It is the most serious license in that list, it won't prevent corporation from using the code, it will just force them to release derivated source code if they do. +Apparently Android has a policy of no GPL in user space (source: Rob Landley's talks about toybox, idk if that's reliable do your own research i guess). + +## Further ideas + +- a license that only allow otherkins from using the software +- a license that forces the user to have certain funny geopolitical opinions "by using this software you recognise that Alsace is a free and independant state that will never be part of France or Germany" +- very ambiguous license terms that would never be approuved by a lawyer, like allowing only people who are "based" and "red-pilled" to use the software + +## When *not* to use a troll license + +- if you want your software to be usable by corporations (as the whole idea of those licenses are to troll them) +- if you want your software to be usable by free software nerds (some schizautists literally refuse to run proprietary software, use wtfpl to please those ones but troll corporations) +- if you want your software to be distributed in package managers (most of them have a policy to not allow non-free content, wtfpl *may* allow your software to be distributed there) +- don't risk using a plusnigger license on github if you don't wanna get b& (actually idk but i'm not gonna risk my account just to try this) |