Open sourcers summoned to take dancing poultry license registry

In an attempt to revolutionize the world of open source, has a supporter of free software a new license for the Open Source Initiative. The document is two years in the making, and known as the CDL, short for Chicken Dance license.

"The purpose of this license to intellectual property is much more fun to deal with, writes" Andrew Harris, the author of the license. "Place of boring old GPL-violations or license agreements for GPL software, [a] entertaining video of people do the chicken dance is produced. If this was sued, perhaps even run CDL offenders retroactively the chicken dance! "

The license is meant to compensate for the heavy legal part of open source software. "We all want less lawyers in software, but that is not always possible," he says. "We may as well dress up the ugly legal side of it all with classic Swiss polka."

According to the submission, is based on BSD license. "I thought this was a good place to start for the CDL," he continues. "It is easy to understand and relatively short. Are my fourth clause and the disclaimer that I added relieve itself from the liability of injuries and costs incurred to run the chicken dance. "

The license is available here. Under article 4 of the license, anyone who wants to CDL deploy software without source code redistribution submission to the following conditions:

For every thousand (1,000) units divided, must at least half of the employees or persons working with the product to listen to the "Der Ententanz" (AKA "The Chicken Dance") composed by Thomas Werner for no less than two (2) minutesFor each twenty thousand (20,000) units-verdeeldtwee (2) or more persons are linked to the entity must be included to perform full chicken dance, in an original video on the entity's own costs, and a video encoded in OGG Theora format, at least three (3) minutes in length, must be presented to the , provided that the contact information. The dance must be based on the instructions on how to do the chicken dance with this software you have received. If you have instructions on how to do the chicken dance have not received, then the chicken dance-like in nature.Each employee or person associated with the product should be banned from the word "plinth" to say in public at all times, as long as distribution of the product.

It seems, but that the license is unlikely to win approval. "Clause 4 appears in conflict with OSD clause 5 because people with a disability or cultural obligations prevent them with both singing or dancing (or religious issues portraying chickens) not equal freedoms under the licence would have," writes OSI director Simon Phipps.

"It violates OSD clause 6 also if the use in the industry would prevent plinth. There are also difficulties relating to dependence on contact information up-to-date is such that freedoms would no longer is available in case uncontactable. "

No doubt, Google will oppose on the basis of the CDL license proliferation. And then Microsoft its own version, called the tolerant Chicken Dance license, which anyone who uses his code to run by the Swiss polka until they die of exhaustion will require will introduce. ®

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