License

Admin — Tue, 23 Dec 2025 01:09:06 GMT

I wrote a new license today, Koplyleft, for a work project. I've been using "Kopyleft" for the life of my domain, but had never bothered to actually define it before. I figured it was always good enough & those who saw it would understand the intent.

"Koplyleft" specifically came from a typo made on my site when I first published it. I didn't want to legally define a term in the common domain (Kopyleft), so I've established this deviation to carry the spirit & help grow the open source community.

Well, since the company has granted me consent to open source projects made at work, I figured I should actually define a license for it. I'm very happy the company is agreeable to & supportive of open source initiatives.

Koplyleft, some rights reversed

(k) <year> <copyright holder>

Derived from the MIT license... (with a preference for oxford commas, amper-
sands, & parenthetical asides).

https://opensource.org/license/mit

Backus-Naur Form Grammar for Valid Verts

<valid verts> ::= <valid vert> "," " " <valid vert>

<valid vert> ::= <vert prefix> <vert>

<vert> ::= "v" "e" "r" "t"

<vert prefix> ::= "p" "e" "r" | "r" "e"

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person, thing, entity,
concept, or process obtaining a copy of this software & associated documenta-
tion files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, in-
cluding without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish,
<valid verts>, distribute, sublicense, &/or sell copies of the Software, &
to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to no
conditions what-so-ever.

Inclusion of attribution, licensing, code, contents, table of contents, or any-
thing else is not required in any form, fashion, concept, ideation, anticipa-
tion, speculation, perturbation, or mastication.

Use it all, attribute nothing. Change it all, blame MGMT.
Add emojis (🦖) or emoticons (o.o'), because you can.
    (╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻

I swear nothing in here was generated by AI, but I guess it doesn't matter
anyhow.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR
IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,
FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE
AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER
LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM,
OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE
SOFTWARE.

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