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.