I loved this version of the BSD open source licence in rhyme so much that I thought I would have to reproduce it here.
NOTE: The author does not like the poem to be reproduced anywhere other than in his page (the poem is ironically posted with All Rights Reserved). One of my biggest pet-peeves is when open source advocates become proprietary when the chips are down.
ETA: The author explains why the licence is under all rights reserved:
“The original is OSI-approved, but the verse version certainly is not, and so should not be used for software. To make sure that does not become the case, I retain all copyright rights for now.”
Fair enough, but it still seems ironic that a free licence is adapted into an all rights reserved work.
ETA 2: The story has been picked up by French site Numerama.
4 Comments
Brett Glass · October 16, 2010 at 9:50 am
Too wordy. I prefer the "Limerick License:" http://ow.ly/2Uuyd
Andres · October 16, 2010 at 9:58 am
Thanks, I agree 🙂
Alex · May 31, 2013 at 11:34 am
https://github.com/alexgenaud/Poetic-License
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