From ed855ae8d0e111597f37197a9b60e562bd7fb9ba Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: isaac <git@xtzws.com>
Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2025 11:57:29 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Clarified wording slightly and added plaintext license

---
 license/index.html     |  8 +++---
 terms/text/license.txt | 60 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 64 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 terms/text/license.txt
diff --git a/license/index.html b/license/index.html
index 188e5e9..8debe38 100644
--- a/license/index.html
+++ b/license/index.html
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
     <script defer data-domain="isaac.run" src="https://plausible.isaac.run/js/script.outbound-links.js" integrity="sha512-P6pA99trHkg8qamw+QZ+qVihPF5m4k7R9RSj+YljYVHt04+eYV1ELtZkhDEikEhBROqURMezBUBpw4LpSD0iAQ==" crossorigin="anonymous"></script>
   </head>
   <body>
-    <h1>Isaac&rsquo;s License</h1>
+    <h1>Esoteric Common License</h1>
     <hr>
     <p>Version 1.0 &mdash; 2025-09-15</p>
     <hr>
@@ -28,10 +28,10 @@
       </section>
       <section>
       <h2>Amble</h2>
-      <p>To any artisitic or literary work or document or software or other piece of writing (collectively, &ldquo;work&rdquo;) to which this license or a representation or a reference or a notice of this license has been applied, then this work is dedicated to the public domain in the United States.</p>
-      <p>If you are in one of the other countries:</p>
+      <p>To any artistic or literary work or document or software or other piece of writing (collectively, &ldquo;work&rdquo;) to which this license or a representation or a reference or a notice of this license has been applied, then this work is dedicated to the public domain in the United States.</p>
+      <p>If you are in one of the other countries and:</p>
       <ul>
-        <li>and you are in an area that recognizes a foreigner&rsquo;s right to dedicate their work to the public domain in the manner in which I have just done so for United States readers:
+        <li>you are in an area that recognizes a foreigner&rsquo;s right to dedicate their work to the public domain in the manner in which I have just done so for United States readers:
           <ul>
             <li>then this work is dedicated to the public domain</li>
           </ul>
diff --git a/terms/text/license.txt b/terms/text/license.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..a87fc00
--- /dev/null
+++ b/terms/text/license.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,60 @@
+Esoteric Common License
+Version 1.0 - 2025-09-15
+
+Prepreamble
+As you may have noticed, I'm a fan of writing overly verbose legal documents.
+Read the ICSA as an example, or just check out how many of them I've written.
+This one is also significantly longer than it needs to be, simply because that's
+how I want it.
+
+Preamble
+For all the copyright nerds out there, this is technically a «DEDICATION» or a
+«WAIVER» but I think «LICENSE» sounds and looks better, especially in the URL,
+and license is a little bit clearer at first glance for what this talking about.
+
+I was inspired by Kate Morley after blatantly stealing her CSS for styling forms
+which she makes available under the CC0. I did some introspection and realized
+that I expected all software to be free as in freedom and free as in beer, and it
+would be unfair if I didn't make my work available also. Hence why I'm rambling
+to you now.
+
+You may be wondering, if you know of such things, why I don't just mark it with
+Creative Commons Zero and be done with it. The reason is that I wanted my work
+to actually be in the public domain, at least in my country, and not very nearly
+public domain. For many years, I've made my work available to the no one who wants
+to use it. My first license was a restricted source available, future apps were
+under a more permissive license like the GNU GPL, WTFPL, and the SQLite Blessing.
+Creative works have long been licensed with various Creative Commons licenses, like
+CC BY-NC-ND for some English work, up to CC-BY for my iNaturalist contributions.
+I am entering my next phase of: who tf cares. My thinking for reserving some
+rights is that I might be able to make some money off of it in the future. But
+that is not going to happen. So I might as well make it available to the most
+people. Now onto the dedication.
+
+Amble
+To any artistic or literary work or document or software or other piece of
+writing (collectively, "work") to which this license or a representation or a
+reference or a notice of this license has been applied, then this work is dedicated
+to the public domain in the United States.
+
+If you are in one of the other countries and:
+
+  you are in an area that recognizes a foreigner's right to dedicate their work to
+  the public domain in the manner in which I have just done so for United States readers:
+    then this work is dedicated to the public domain
+
+  or you are in an area that does not recognize the public domain or does not allow
+  a foreigner to place their work in the public domain in the manner in which I have
+  done so above for United States readers or does not recognize a work that has been
+  placed into the public domain by a foreigner in their home country if that work
+  would otherwise be protected by your home country's copyright laws:
+    then this work is marked Creative Commons Zero
+
+If, in the rare circumstance that none of the above conditions apply to you,
+then you have no permission to use my work in any capacity and I will sue you
+for every penny you're worth.
+
+Postamble
+This could have been made much shorter by simply writing «This work is dedicated
+to the public domain the United States and marked CC0 elsewhere.» but they say
+brevity is the soul of wit, and this document is not supposed to be funny. Good day.
