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diff --git a/project/templates/sunset.html b/project/templates/sunset.html index d670e64..9354e63 100644 --- a/project/templates/sunset.html +++ b/project/templates/sunset.html @@ -16,19 +16,18 @@ <h5>29/6/2017</h5> <p>Software licenses bother me. As a general rule I prefer to make my projects open source, -and for that purpose something like the <a href="https://unlicense.org/" target="_blank">Unlicense</a> -is often sufficient. But if I don't want to put my work in the public domain immediately, then -I have to make use of a <a href="https://www.copyleft.org/" target="_blank">copyleft</a> license. And all -of the ones currently available are both incredibly, unnecessarily verbose, and fail to -address the primary failing of modern copyright law, which is the unreasonably long term -lengths.</p> - -<p>So after a considerable amount of thought, I've written my own. (I can hear those with -legal knowledge wailing and gnashing their teeth already.) Care has been taken to mimic the -phrasing used in popular existing licenses where possible. I've also kept it as simple and as -straightforward as I can make it. So hopefully there are no loopholes and it's exactly as it -appears: a simple weak copyleft license which places older parts of a work under a public -domain disclaimer in a reasonable timeframe.</p> +and for that purpose something like the <a href="https://unlicense.org/" class="external">Unlicense</a> +is often sufficient. But if I don't want to put my work in the public domain immediately, then I +have to make use of a <a href="https://www.copyleft.org/" class="external">copyleft</a> license. And +all of the ones currently available are both incredibly, unnecessarily verbose, and fail to address +the primary failing of modern copyright law, which is the unreasonably long term lengths.</p> + +<p>So after a considerable amount of thought, I've written my own. (I can hear those with legal +knowledge wailing and gnashing their teeth already.) Care has been taken to mimic the phrasing used +in popular existing licenses where possible. I've also kept it as simple and as straightforward as I +can make it. So hopefully there are no loopholes and it's exactly as it appears: a simple weak +copyleft license which places older parts of a work under a public domain disclaimer in a reasonable +timeframe.</p> <p>The full text is as follows:</p> <div class="precontain"> @@ -56,9 +55,9 @@ may do whatever you want with it, regardless of all other clauses. </pre> </div> -<p>The git repository also contains an accompanying rationale and a simple logo I threw together. -In the future, all my projects will either use this license or the Unlicense. Works I've -already created will be relicensed as appropriate.</p> +<p>The git repository also contains an accompanying rationale and a simple logo I threw together. In +the future, all my projects will either use this license or the Unlicense. Works I've already +created will be relicensed as appropriate.</p> {% endblock %} |