The "Fork Off" Public License

• Are you an author of cost-free open-source software?
• Are you tired of assholes in your inbox asking for this, that, and the other?
• Are you tired of even nice people in your inbox?
• Are you tired of feature requests with no patches attached?
• Are you tired of being asked for ETAs on open issues?
• Are you tired of filing issues?
• Are you tired of software licenses and determining compatibility between them?
• ARE YOU JUST TIRED?!

Presenting: the "Fork Off" Public License, wherein you can encourage folks to spend their own time and effort maintaining software for free, instead!

Howdy from the author

This is obviously a joke license, please enjoy it as such, and ideally, use it only as a dual-license alongside some real license of your choosing (I recommend CC0-1.0, ISC, or MPL-2.0, for copyfree, permissive, and copyleft, respectively). I hope it makes you laugh just a little as you delete spammers and trollers from your IRC room... and your inbox... and you contemplate a life shoveling pig shit on a farm, far from any computers, ever again. Thank you for sharing your work and your art with the world, and I hope you continue to do so - and that your work outlives your maintainership of it in some fork, somewhere!

This license's license

You may publish or redistribute this license text verbatim freely. If you modify this license text in any way, you must change the name before sharing it.