TL;DR: It's yours. Do something awesome with it.

That's the opening statement of a software license I've been developing.

It's called the tl;dr: license, currently version 1.6.

The serious part is simple:

Use it. Modify it. Sell it. Share it.

If you separately distribute modified software, keep the source freely available under the same license.

Website hosting and ordinary browser delivery are unrestricted.

Nobody needs permission from the original creator to continue developing or distributing the software.

Then the warranty disclaimer got a little out of hand.

"If the software begins modifying you, please document the changes before your objectivity becomes compromised."

"If causality is affected, submit your bug report before the incident."

"If civilization collapses, please preserve the source code for future generations."

"If the collapse is reproducible, DO NOT ATTEMPT TO REPRODUCE IT."

The complete license is published here:

https://shogi-training-room.neocities.org/license.html

It's free to read, download, and adopt.

The license hasn't received independent legal review or OSI approval.

Serious criticism is welcome. So is laughter.

And if civilization collapses, please remember that the developers are no longer accepting pull requests.

Thank you for your service

no other function calls her...

it has to make sense

...I'm a sudomasochist

It won't work: she's an interpreter and C is a compiled language.

a)  █    b) █ █
  ──┴──    ─┴─┴─

c) █ █   d) █ ▄▄
  ─┴─┴─    ─┴─┴─

Hello, Win

Two programmers look at some Unicode letter.

- How do you call this letter?
- It's data, not machine code, calling it would likely cause a crash.

Engli.sh

This is a real story. In addition to being a programmer, I am also a writer. So there was an interview with me as a writer for a local magazine. The editor wanted to highlight also my programmer background there, but he is no computer geek so instead of "I program backend" he wrote there "I program backhand". Luckily I catched the error before it went to publication.

Both work fine on my machine and both crash in production at 3 AM.

"I was supposed to learn Smalltalk but now I treat people like objects"

The heartware.

But it's still pretty Kafkaesque.

haRAM!!

Symbian

He offered to be the only 1 for her, but deep down she knew that it still wouldn't be true.

It turns out I tore an ACL.

It was a close() call!