This page contains a list of shitty licenses that you should NEVER use.
Related readingIdeological license that discriminates against certain use cases.
A license that prohibits law enforcement and most corporations from using the software, also discriminates based on race (!): "No Law Enforcement, Carceral Institutions, or Immigration enforcement entities may use the work or products of the work. For any reason, be it for simulation, production of propaganda, or otherwise"
"No business entity where the ratio of pay [...] between the highest and lowest individual [...] is greater than 50 : 1 may use the work for any reason."
"Business entities with boards/management comprising [of] less than 1/2 [nonwhite people] may not use the work for any reason."
"The User [has to be] one of the following:
a. An individual person, laboring for themselves
b. A non-profit organization
c. An educational institution
d. An organization that seeks shared profit for all of its members, and allows non-members to set the cost of their labor"
"The Anti-Capitalist Software License is not an open source software license." - hey, at least they're honest.
License created by the "Open Source" Afro Hair Library (which in reality is just about as "open" as "Open"AI is.)
The project in itself looks interesting but the license completely spoils it for me and so I won't be using it in any of my projects.
This project is also promoted by Dove (the soap company) and Toasty Marshmellow - one of the YouTubers behind that annoying Amanda the Adventurer song.
Paralegal nonsese; discriminates against certain use cases: "[...] cannot recreate The Library itself and/or host the assets created for OSAHL on another site"
"You cannot sell or distribute [the models]"
"It’s not okay even if you modify the models and sell them for $0."
the author also appears to be a Ludd - "[may not be used for the creation/distribution/promotion of] non-fungible tokens, [machine learning] training sets/databases"
The text of this license also has a FAQ section (which should not be present in a legal document):
"Question: I’m not Black but I have a lot to say about Black culture and not all of it is good lol, can I use [the models]?
Answer: Nope."
A license that discriminates based on race, sex/gender, and sexual orientation.
No quotes needed.
A license made by literal communists, what could go wrong?
[TODO]
"No one may use this Work for prejudiced or bigoted purposes [or] to inflict or facilitate violence or abuse of human rights" "No private business run for profit with more than a thousand employees may use the Work for any reason."