# 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).

### "i'm so tired" software license

[Veadotube](https://veado.tube/docs/terms/)'s software license, a masterpiece of a troll license brought to you by autistic transgender pngtubers.
Heavily LGBT-focused, the license basically forbid anyone in the "wrong" political side from using their software, it even forbid anything blockchain
related so if you have monero donation on your stream you can't use their pngtuber software. Even if you are just affiliated with people doing stuff
they don't like you can't use their software.

### Goatse Public License

A beautiful troll license from the friends at gikopoi.com, force the software users to have the goatse image in their copy of the software, if that doesn't make corporations run away I don't know what will.

## Further ideas

- a license that only allow otherkins from using the software (veadotube's license lowkey does that but in a soft way)
- 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
- a license that contains actual copyrighted material inside it (like an entire Harry Potter novel)

## Related resources

https://github.com/ErikMcClure/bad-licenses/

Another repo similar to mine, with way more troll licenses, althou they might have a policy not to include the most offensive ones as they seem to lack the +NIGGER license (and at this time they don't have the goatse license either but someone submitted it two days ago so right now its unsure whether or not they will actually add it).

## When *not* to use a troll license

- if you want your software to be usable by corporations (as the whole idea of those licenses is 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)