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Even more terse, there's the "0-clause BSD" (Toybox) license [1] and the Fair License [2].

The first one is essentially akin to releasing in the public domain, whereas the second is the MIT/ISC license distilled down to its very core.

[1] http://landley.net/toybox/license.html

[2] http://opensource.org/licenses/fair



Terser still, WTFPL: http://www.wtfpl.net/about/

WTFPL has come in for some stick about the lack of a warranty clause, so last time I had to choose a licence, I perverted it into the FTWPL: https://github.com/systemed/tagmangle/blob/master/LICENCE.tx...


The Fair License is shorter. The WTFPL is about the same size as the Toybox license and has the same intent, but is far more legally ambiguous. I wouldn't use it for anything beyond toys.




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