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<h4>Sunset License</h4>
<p>Git repository: <a href="/cgi-bin/cgit.cgi/sunset">Link</a></p>
<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/" 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">
<pre>
SUNSET LICENSE
Version 1.0, June 2017
1. You may copy, modify, use, sell, or distribute this work, verbatim or
modified, for any purpose.
2. If you sell or distribute this work, whether verbatim or modified, you must
include a copy of this license, and you must make the source code available for
no extra charge.
3. A modified version of this work must be clearly labeled as such.
4. Derivative works must also be licensed under this license or a license of
equivalent terms. As an exception, linking this work with another, whether
statically or dynamically, does not impose any license requirements on the
other work.
5. If a minimum of 15 years have passed since the date of first publishing for
a part of this work, then that part is placed into the public domain and you
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>
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