The April Fools' Public License (AFPL) is a permissive free software license based on the MIT license.
The AFPL is compatible with the MIT License and other copyleft licenses like the GNU GPL. You may use it for any project you wish.
Copyright <YEAR> <COPYRIGHT HOLDER>
Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Joke"), to deal in the Joke without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, misuse, abuse, avoid, copy, paste, modify, merge, publish, distribute, redistribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Joke, and to permit persons to whom the Joke is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Joke.
The Joke is not intended for any serious applications but may be used at your own peril.
THE JOKE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE JOKE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE JOKE.
The AFPL license text is recursively licensed under the AFPL itself - see LICENSE.md for more information on usage rights.
- Is this a real license I can use? Yes.
- Is this a joke? Also yes.
- Wait... did you just replace "software" with "joke" and add a few extra words to the MIT license? No comment.