Projects that have adopted the Unlicense

[Arto Bendiken]

A little bird told me that we have just had the first third-party
project [1] adopt [2] the Unlicense public domain dedication.

I have added it to the user list [3] I'm maintaining on Unlicense.org.
So far, all the other software on that list is due to me or to Ben
Lavender [4], so it's good to have the first external addition.

Here's hoping that we'll see the list grow. Feel free to post
information on project additions in this thread, and I'll make sure to
list them on the site.

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[1] http://bitbucket.org/noname/netscan/
[2] http://lists.suckless.org/dev/1001/2854.html
[3] http://unlicense.org/#unlicensed-free-software
[4] http://bhuga.net/

[Arto Bendiken]

Zachary Voase has just unlicensed his awesome Markdoc software [1],
which powers Unlicense.org among other sites. He has also blogged [2]
about his rationale.

Well done, Zack. I've added Markdoc to the growing freest-of-the-free
software list at Unlicense.org [3].

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Arto Bendiken | http://ar.to/

[1] http://markdoc.org/
[2] http://blog.zacharyvoase.com/2010-01-04-why-im-going-public
[3] http://unlicense.org/#unlicensed-free-software

[Ben Lavender]

I (or we) just released http://github.com/bhuga/quantity as unlicensed
software too.

[Arto Bendiken]

I have just stumbled across Tubras, a rather impressive-looking C++
game engine that has adopted the Unlicense:

http://code.google.com/p/tubras/

The project page states "MIT License" in the sidebar simply because
Google Code doesn't provide the option "Public Domain"; if you look
further down on the page there is a statement "All software produced
under this Google code project is 'Unlicensed'."

Also, it is evident that the casual adoption of the Unlicense is
starting as well, as demonstrated by these following examples of
people using it for code snippets and other small projects that
they've published directly on their blogs:

http://retro-net.org/~lorance/2010warmup/2010-01-17.html
http://cromoteca.com/en/software/gwt_ant_tasks/index.html
http://robertfield.wordpress.com/2010/01/06/code-for-the-personal-portal-and-the-unlicense/
http://jrwren.wrenfam.com/blog/2010/01/07/im-lazy-and-i-need-my-helpers/

The final thing I want to mention is WPDCC, an in-the-works public
domain C compiler that several folks on this list have pointed me at:

http://www.whoow.org/

[Arto Bendiken]

On Jan 24, 9:20 am, Arto Bendiken <arto.bendi...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I have just stumbled across Tubras, a rather impressive-looking C++
> game engine that has adopted the Unlicense:
>
> http://code.google.com/p/tubras/

The commit message [1] for when Tubras adopted the Unlicense is also
instructive in illustrating the very real need that the Unlicense
initiative is providing for:

"Free at last! Free at last! Thank God Almighty, we are free at
last!"

(That's the final line of Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream"
speech, by the way.)

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Arto Bendiken | http://ar.to/

[1] http://code.google.com/p/tubras/source/detail?r=1464

[Arto Bendiken]

Nuush, a command-line RSS feed reader, has today been released into
the public domain using the Unlicense:

http://chr.tx0.org/nuush

The developer of Nuush is a Swede named Chrille Peterson:

http://twitter.com/chr

Sweden could actually be a lucrative ground for the Unlicense, what
with the cultural shift wrought by the Pirate Bay and the Pirate
Party.

In other news, today has also seen the very first foreign-language
story about the Unlicense, in the Italian webzine Programmazione.it:

http://programmazione.it/index.php?entity=eitem&idItem=43807

[Arto Bendiken]

Oops, my bad: @chr on Twitter is not @chr on Identi.ca, so I
misattributed [1] Nuush in my previous e-mail to the list. The actual
author of Nuush is Christian Mongeau [2]. My apologies for the
mistake, Christian, and glad to have you on the mailing list.

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Arto Bendiken | http://ar.to/

[1] http://identi.ca/notice/20400758
[2] http://identi.ca/chr

[Christian M.]

Hello!

Arto Bendiken (Friday 29 January 2010, 19:22):

> Oops, my bad: @chr on Twitter is not @chr on Identi.ca, so I
> misattributed [1] Nuush in my previous e-mail to the list.
>

> [1] http://identi.ca/notice/20400758

Thank you for having included Nuush in the list of "Unlicensed
Free Software" at http://unlicense.org/. As for the attribution,
I don't really care. I'd be happy if someone finds the script
useful. That's all ;)

I'll spread the Unlicense as much as I can: Public Domain is
*real* freedom.

Best regards,

chr

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