Re: Chicken Dance License

[Ben Finney <ben+debian@benfinney.id.au>]

Andrew Harris <tuna@supertunaman.com> writes:

> I am the author of a new Free Software license called the Chicken
> Dance License. It is a BSD-based license that offers extra hilarity
> over most, if not all, other Free Software licenses.

I can certainly appreciate the desire for more fun and humour in this
area. However:

> This new legal infrastructure that I seek to create will result in
> less hair-pulling and teeth gnashing, and more out-loud proclamations
> of "LOLOL".

This seems highly doubtful; license proliferation is not something that
leads to a net increase in happiness. Quite the opposite, in fact.

Please, don't do that; instead, choose an existing well-understood and
well-exercised free software license.

-- 
 \      “It's up to the masses to distribute [music] however they want |
  `\    … The laws don't matter at that point. People sharing music in |
_o__)        their bedrooms is the new radio.” —Neil Young, 2008-05-06 |
Ben Finney