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Esoteric Common License
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Version 1.0 - 2025-09-15
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Prepreamble
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As you may have noticed, I'm a fan of writing overly verbose legal documents.
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Read the ICSA as an example, or just check out how many of them I've written.
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This one is also significantly longer than it needs to be, simply because that's
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how I want it.
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Preamble
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For all the copyright nerds out there, this is technically a «DEDICATION» or a
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«WAIVER» but I think «LICENSE» sounds and looks better, especially in the URL,
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and license is a little bit clearer at first glance for what this talking about.
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I was inspired by Kate Morley after blatantly stealing her CSS for styling forms
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which she makes available under the CC0. I did some introspection and realized
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that I expected all software to be free as in freedom and free as in beer, and it
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would be unfair if I didn't make my work available also. Hence why I'm rambling
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to you now.
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You may be wondering, if you know of such things, why I don't just mark it with
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Creative Commons Zero and be done with it. The reason is that I wanted my work
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to actually be in the public domain, at least in my country, and not very nearly
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public domain. For many years, I've made my work available to the no one who wants
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to use it. My first license was a restricted source available, future apps were
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under a more permissive license like the GNU GPL, WTFPL, and the SQLite Blessing.
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Creative works have long been licensed with various Creative Commons licenses, like
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CC BY-NC-ND for some English work, up to CC-BY for my iNaturalist contributions.
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I am entering my next phase of: who tf cares. My thinking for reserving some
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rights is that I might be able to make some money off of it in the future. But
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that is not going to happen. So I might as well make it available to the most
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people. Now onto the dedication.
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Amble
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To any artistic or literary work or document or software or other piece of
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writing (collectively, "work") to which this license or a representation or a
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reference or a notice of this license has been applied, then this work is dedicated
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to the public domain in the United States.
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If you are in one of the other countries and:
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you are in an area that recognizes a foreigner's right to dedicate their work to
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the public domain in the manner in which I have just done so for United States readers:
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then this work is dedicated to the public domain
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or you are in an area that does not recognize the public domain or does not allow
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a foreigner to place their work in the public domain in the manner in which I have
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done so above for United States readers or does not recognize a work that has been
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placed into the public domain by a foreigner in their home country if that work
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would otherwise be protected by your home country's copyright laws:
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then this work is marked Creative Commons Zero
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If, in the rare circumstance that none of the above conditions apply to you,
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then you have no permission to use my work in any capacity and I will sue you
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for every penny you're worth.
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Postamble
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This could have been made much shorter by simply writing «This work is dedicated
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to the public domain the United States and marked CC0 elsewhere.» but they say
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brevity is the soul of wit, and this document is not supposed to be funny. Good day.
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