Software License

The goal

You are free to use any code on this site or public repos on github for anything you want – without attribution, in commercial software. The one exception is the Warming Stripes repo which is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 because that is how the original idea was licensed.

In case you want a license…

All the code on the site is licensed under Unlicense. All public repos are licensed using the MIT license. The goal is to make the code as easy to use as possible.

Why two licenses?

Unlicense is more in line with my intentions, but there are some concerns that Unlicense may not hold up to legal scrutiny because it has not undergone as many legal tests as the MIT license. Because of that, MIT-licensed software is frequently preferable for inclusion in commercial software.

What about just not licensing your software at all?

Unlicensed software defaults to copyright by the software’s author, which means no one can use it without explicit permission.

Wow, software licensing is annoying.

Don’t get me started 🙂