Awesome
μLicense
Tiny and free software license in 299 bytes.
<h6> Copyright (c) <year> <owner><br/> Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, are permitted.</br> THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED 'AS-IS', WITHOUT ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTY. IN NO EVENT WILL THE AUTHORS BE HELD LIABLE FOR ANY DAMAGES ARISING FROM THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE. </h6>Features
- Universal donors.
- Universal recipients.
- No clauses.
- No warranty.
- No liability.
- No attribution required.
Rationale
- Shortest free clause (from BSD license)
- Shortest legal text (from ZLIB license)
- If both sections above are orthogonal and OSI/FSF/GPL/DFSG compatible, this license should be OSI/FSF/GPL/DFSG compatible as well.
Links
- https://spdx.org/licenses/0BSD.html
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zlib_License
- https://github.com/github/choosealicense.com/issues/464
- https://urchin.earth.li/~twic/The_Amazing_Disappearing_BSD_License.html
- https://opensource.org/faq#cc-zero
Changelog
- 299 bytes: with BSD clause, thanks @philliptrudeau! :)
- 325 bytes: initial version.