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An Anti-License Manifesto

29 Sep 2021

software licenses are unavoidably a legal tool. the legal system, in the US and approximately everywhere else, is not a machine that leads to justice. therefore, software licenses do not lead to justice.

we cannot software license our way to a better world. as such, we should and must software license our way to a *stranger* world. permissive licenses and copyleft licenses are both tools of the corporate status quo. we therefore reject all conventional software licenses, and instead champion the weird, the experimental, the decorative, the hostile, the absurd, the useless, the straight up unhinged.

some anti-licenses:

Micah Elizabeth Scott's untitled license for several projects

Bouke van der Bijl's untitled license for `monkey`

Ben Keith's Fight Club License

Ben Keith's Schrödinger License

Ben Keith's Mephistopheles License

Andrew "Tuna" Williamson's Chicken Dance License

why the lucky stiff's Death and Repudiation License

Joseph Redmon's YOLO LICENSE

Rain's Overwatch License

the Bantown public license

Xe's Be Gay Do Crimes License

my Fuck Bitches Get Money License

Mitchell Harper's AntiLicense

whatever the hell is going on here

Big Bill Hell's License