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A compendium of "open-source" licenses


A compendium of absurd "open-source" licenses. Contribute to ErikMcClure/bad-licenses development by creating an account on GitHub.

A license that allows you to copy, modify, or distribute the source code or compiled binaries, but doesn't let you run the program. A two-tiered license which allows only non-commercial and commercial use respectively, but "excluding those relating to or containing non-fungible tokens ("NFT") or blockchain-related projects" in either tier, which makes no legal sense. An MIT derivative license the contradicts it's own "no restrictions" clause by saying that if you modify one of two specific source files, you are no longer eligible to use any future contributions to the repository.

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