The Unlicense is a template for disclaiming copyright monopoly interest in software you’ve written; in other words, it is a template for dedicating your software to the public domain. It combines a copyright waiver patterned after the very successful public domain SQLite project with the no-warranty statement from the widely-used MIT/X11 license.
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Arto Bendiken
Master Toolsmith, Cypherpunk Division
Digital nomad. Freelance coder. Polyglot hacker. Wannabe maker.
Essays
The Unlicense: The First Year in Review
It’s Public Domain Day again, and it’s now been exactly a year since I first introduced the Unlicense.org initiative: an …
Licensed, License-Free, and Unlicensed Code
As discussed on the Unlicense.org mailing list, the notion of “licensing something under the Unlicense” is a not infrequent …
Dissecting the Unlicense: Software Freedom in Four Clauses and a Link
I’ve previously written on the motivation that led us to formulate the Unlicense, a template for dedicating your software to the …
Set Your Code Free
Today is Public Domain Day, in honor of which I’m hereby relicensing (or more properly, unlicensing) all of my software into the …