License Proliferation - Vanity Licenses

Vanity Licenses

Vanity licenses is a term that refers to a license that is written by a company or person for no other reason than to write their own license. If a new license is created that has no obvious improvement or difference over another more common FOSS license it can often be criticized as a vanity license.

As of 2008, many people create a custom new license for their newly released program, without knowing the requirements for a FOSS license and without realizing that using a nonstandard license can make that program almost useless to others.

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Famous quotes containing the word vanity:

    No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library.
    Samuel Johnson (1709–1784)