Comments on: Poetic License

By: Alex

Alex — Wed, 01 Jun 2011 23:04:17 +0000

David, that’s a brilliant idea. Your wish is granted as my command:

https://github.com/alexgenaud/Poetic-License

By: David

David — Wed, 01 Jun 2011 19:09:27 +0000

Can you release this poem/license to the public domain? Otherwise, legally we would have to include this copy when we go to use this license in our own work. The result is that we would have two licenses in our projects – one for our work, and one for our license.

Actually, can you submit this as a project to github so people can freely fork-it and remix or add to it? I’d love to see more work done so this would be a stronger legal document. Right now I’m worried that the ambiguity of the liability clause isn’t sufficient enough for our brain-dead, illogical legal system.

By: jcubic

jcubic — Mon, 11 Apr 2011 05:42:26 +0000

I will use this instead of GNU GPL for my next project. Awesome.

By: Alex

Alex — Wed, 17 Nov 2010 02:48:42 +0000

The Poetic License is no more nor less robust than the BSD, MIT, or ISC. The complaint is that the Poetic License ‘adds one more open source license that will confuse people’. I call bullshit! The BSD-like licenses (such as the Poetic License) are mix-and-match compatible, and the Poetic License is even likely to be memorized. It is nearly identical to the ISC, just rearranged to rhyme! The Poetic License is more guilty of plagiarism than lack of robustness.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISC_license

Hey Outslider, some people have modified the last line to read more like modern English (it doesn’t have the same rhythm I like, but it’s cool by me).

Permission is granted hereby,
to copy, share, and modify.
Use as is fit,
free or for profit.
On this notice, these rights rely.

from [These rights, on this notice, rely.]

By: Outslider

Outslider — Tue, 16 Nov 2010 22:01:15 +0000

Used for small Chess Clock emulator written in python+pygame:D
THX!