The MIT License, but make it honest.
This is a drop-in parody / spiritual successor to the MIT License — same legal bones, completely different soul.
Use it when you want to release code permissively but also want to scream into the void: "I am not responsible for what happens next."
Current date reference: January 2026 (feel free to update the year in your copies).
- A permissive license text (very close to MIT)
- Zero warranties, zero support promises
- Maximum passive-aggressive disclaimers
- 100% compatible with "do whatever you want, just don't sue me"
It's perfect for:
- Personal experiments you're too lazy to maintain
- Proof-of-concept code that's probably cursed
- Libraries you wrote at 4 a.m. on Red Bull and spite
- Projects where you want contributors to know therapy isn't included
GFL License (Good Fucking Luck License)
Copyright (c) [year] [your name or handle]
Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights
to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell
copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is
furnished to do so.
THE SOFTWARE 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 SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN
THE SOFTWARE.
Good fucking luck.
Seriously — you're on your own.
If it breaks at 3 a.m., if it deletes your database, if it summons eldritch horrors
from the stack trace or turns your production into a smoking crater:
that's your problem now.
No support, no hand-holding, no angry GitHub issues will summon divine intervention.
You've been warned.
Have fun, and may your segfaults be few.