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Heya! It's been a while! Mostly just because I've been really busy with life. Oh well, today I wanna talk about my favorite software licenses very briefly. Now, I'm not a lawyer, I don't know much about the legal aspects of software. But i do find software licensing kind of fascinating. Specifically, the idea of forcing people to do very silly things if they want to use your software legally. Yep, we're gonna talk about my favorite joke licenses. JSON License This license states that the software "shall be used for good, not evil". we've solved software licensing, everyone! we can all go home now! funnily enough this is the actual, real license for the json reference implementation, i believe? You can go look it up on json.org. Don't ask me about it license You may use the software, as long as you don't contact the author. The perfect license, honestly. No notes here. Alternative Variable Chain Public License: Forks have to alternate between being commercial and non-commercial.…

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