Is It Time To Choose, The Licence You Will Use?

So, you are about to decide which license you are going to use for your next great soft­ware project, right? I think you should try this rhymed ver­sion of the BSD License by Gervase Markham:

You may redis­trib­ute and use -
as source or binary, as you choose,
and with some changes or with­out -
this soft­ware; let there be no doubt.
But you must meet con­di­tions three,
if in com­pli­ance you wish to be.

The first is obvi­ous, of course -
To keep this text within the source.
The sec­ond is for bina­ries
Place in the docs a copy, please.
A moral les­son from this ode -
Don’t strip the copy­right on code.
The third applies when you pro­mote:
You must not take, from us who wrote,
our names and make it seem as true
we like or love your ver­sion too.
(Unless, of course, you con­tact us
And get our writ­ten assensus.)

When all is told, we sum up thus -
Do what you like, just don’t sue us.

One final point to be laid out
(You must for­give my need to shout):
THERE IS NO WARRANTY FOR THIS
WHATEVER THING MAY GO AMISS.
EXPRESS, IMPLIED, IT’S ALL THE SAME -
RESPONSIBILITY DISCLAIMED.

WE ARE NOT LIABLE FOR LOSS
NO MATTER HOW INCURRED THE COST
THE TYPE OR STYLE OF DAMAGE DONE
OR CLEVER LEGAL THEORY SPUN.
THIS EVEN STAYS THE CASE IF YOU
INFORM US WHAT YOU PLAN TO DO.

When all is told, we sum up thus -
Do what you like, just don’t sue us.

[H/T TechnoLlama]