The Forklift Certified License
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The 'Forklift Certified License' is a humorous, satirical take on licensing agreements, sparking discussion on the nature of free speech, open-source software, and the boundaries of acceptable content.
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The content, the design and the license are a nice blast from the past. Weird, cringy and highly relatable. I like the forklift certified license!
To make friends, lift some people up while putting others down.
It's also naming an enemy, which I find ominous. That was the first thing Trump did.
It defines such a narrow vision of what is socially acceptable liberalism that I dislike it as a diehard liberal because we need to build coalitions to win elections. Liberals win when the center votes with the left, and ostracizing moderates for having failed a purity test helps exactly none with that.
I don't believe in everything the left says tbh and I am more of bernie sanders -esque socialism left than the woke pronoun (no offense to anybody, just something that I consider to be of less importance than goddamn billionaires)
I believe that the left has this problem of taking small differences, amplifying them up 100x and then dividing the vote split.
I don't agree with the forklift guys in that aspect but uh I can understand their perspective tbh which was I wrote that comment.
> “The User may not sell this Work directly, unless they/she/he/it/ey/fae/ze/bun/puppy/foxxo … use it only as a small part of a work of a much greater scale.”
That said, TIL that there are two things that can be considered “Belgium denialism” and surprisingly neither of them involves refusing to acknowledge that Belgium exists.
That's why my stuff is in AGPL, so people who want to use proprietary licenses such as this won't be able to do so.
(Or they'll just ignore it, just like I ignore theirs.)
My god, I was writing this comment or some other comment and it wasn't flagged but then it got flagged during the process or after I wrote my comment or in between it
It shouldn't be flagged imo.
It was funny and it was almost shitposting
Did the yellow website guys joke truly offend someone or-?
Also, I had one criticsm-ish of the website that they say that "If the User is an organization with paid workers, the amount of employees cannot exceed 10."
Like that kinda doesn't make sense, in the sense that what do they want, that companies with more employees are bad or something!? I genuinely don't understand that line tbh
I came across ACAP license through their website https://anticapitalist.software/ and its kinda cool
MAP rights are human rights
What a massive breath of fresh air.
Just yay.