License stuff came up the other day. Got me wondering.
Could I use something like the mit or GPL license, but add a requirement that anyone that uses the software had to send me a pic of their butthole?
What is the use case for this GPL + bhole license?
Memes mostly. It world also need to have an age of majority clause.
Then if the library actually gets picked up somewhere it would be a good extortion tactic.
You can write any conditions you want into a license.
That’s what actually differentiates proprietary licenses from open-source licenses.
Open-source licenses follow certain rules, and you usually select an existing license, so therefore they can be reasoned about, collectively. People often implicitly mean “OSI-approved license”, when they talk of “open-source licenses”.
Proprietary licenses, on the other hand, can contain whatever bullcrap you want.Having said that, I’m not a lawyer, but I imagine, if you also called your license “GNU General Public License”, then a case could probably be made in court, that your license is deliberately confusing.
This one would be like a “GNU General Pubic License.”
They can’t just contain “any bullcrap you want”.
Contracts need to follow the set of rules in your country that dictate what can and can’t be enforced. It’s an entire branch of law.
If you try and pull something like OP is suggesting, the worst case scenario is that it may render the contract an unlawful document and therefore void.
I imagine in most places things like what OP is suggesting would get laughed out of court.
You can have some fun though. I heard of one guy who, as a recruitment bonus, insisted that it be included in his contract that he receive an office desk made entirely of Lego.
Fun fact: Buttholes are unique in the same way that fingerprints are. So resubmitting with a new picture can be used as proof of identification and thereby licensing.
Why do I know this, you wonder? Eons ago I stumbled across this anus recognition software source base. The idea was that it could one day be used for identification instead of retina scanning.
OP, make sure that since you’d be collecting personally identifying information, you can comply with GDPR requests.
*GDPArse
I’ll need some way to verify the software was deleted if the butthole was revoked.
You can write any term you want for your software. There have been instances of people adding terms to their licensing like “You hereby accept to forfeit your soul’s ownership to the creator of this software.”
Enforcing it is a different problem.
NAL, but I think it won’t be considered open-source, as it violates rule 5 of the open-source definition. What if the person does not want to share butt-hole? Doesn’t the license discriminate that people sharing butt-hole pics are only permitted to use this software? What if they don’t have a butt-hole to begin with, and use a colostomy bag? What if they shit and bleed in the same hole, cuz they were fused at birth? It is also not enforceable. What if the party in question shares their painted navel, their wrinkly skin, or their reproductive organ (foreskin tip, vaginal canal) as the butt-hole? They could also share the butthole of a dog or a horse? You will also have to issue stool samples and ass-tissue samples? I’d recommend that you consult a lawyer who specializes in shitty laws.
I guess how loosely or roughly or tightly I wanted to inspect these buttholes would be up to me. Maybe I would just have to take the butthole on faith. I might have to develop another library to reverse image search buttholes to at least make sure it was a new butthole.
Hmm, interesting. I think it would be better if this was escalated to the Congress - I’ll ask my distant cousin, who’s the head of chief, responsible for monitoring people jerking off to lizards - there’s a separate department for that. As @neidu2@feddit.nl pointed out, bribe your local politician in favor of record butt-prints as a legal form of SSN identification. Now, another advantage of this political move is that this one-time image picture could be encoded to base128. This new encoded data, added with the nonce, that is, the current time and a pseudo-random string onto the blockchain. That will get them analcoin skeptics.
In reality, no one worth extorting is going to use a non OSI approved license (or license and exception).
That said, the JSON license says JSON must not be used for evil. Is it any coincidence Google made protobuf as a JSON alternative??
I’ve added a “Everyone except Bob Smith can use this software” a la “fuck Anish Kapoor” clauses for paint colors before.
Though honestly it would be hard to enforce.
Creative works are better served by Creative Commons licenses instead of software licenses.
