You have to agree to proceed as well.
For real though, the shortest license is probably the WTFPL:
- You just DO WHAT THE FUCK YOU WANT TO.
Might’ve used it a couple of times myself.
You wouldn’t believe the amount of legal ink that has been spilled trying to work out what the fuck the Do What The Fuck You Want To licence actually means, legally.
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Just list every single thing in existance the user can possibly do… “By agreeing to these terms the user can,… In case the user can’t do any of the following the user is permitted to not do any of the following.”
Just be like, by agreeing to these terms the user can do anything mentioned in the library of Babel.
“You will now give me $40,000”
Agree
This is from the perspective of the company so you’d be 40k in the hole. You’d want something like “Upon agreement to the terms the licensee will receive forty thousand US dollars ($40,000) within ninety (90) from the licensor. There will be a penalty of one thousand US dollars ($1,000) for every day after that period if not paid.”
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Let’s take a page from the code reviewers handbook:
LGTM
[] Yah [] Nah
is that Let’s GeT Married ?
Ligma Gottem ™
Just in case you don’t actually know, it’s Looks Good To Me. It’s very commonly used when software devs review each other’s code.
And it’s frequency of usage is proportional to the amount of code to be reviewed.
The terms are that you have to insert your license agreement text? Man.
BYOLA
Bring Your Own Liscence Agreement
I agree that the copyright, source code and associated trademarks of this software product will transfer ownership to the undersigned (the user) in perpetuity.
Ooh, can I write my own? Okay, let’s see…
