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Hot Potato License (jlai.lu)

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[–] raldone01@lemmy.world 41 points 4 months ago (1 children)

There are a few flaws.

There should be a clause forcing it to remain open source. Another clause should be that the license must not be changed. A warrenty and liability disclaimer would be also good. Otherwise a splendid license.

[–] jnk@sh.itjust.works 27 points 4 months ago

I would 100% use this HPL-v2 for all of my (temporary) foss projects. It's just genius. I mean, good luck keeping track of the current owner, Nintendo lawyers.