This is just a quite note that the Greater Lunduke License (aka "The GLL" aka "The Bill & Ted License") has been declared "1.0".

Not familiar with this license?  You should be.  Because it is awesome.

From the licenses preamble:

The "Greater Lunduke License" is inspired, in part, by the wisdom of the Two Great Ones, Bill S. Preston, Esq. and Ted "Theodore" Logan.  Namely that we should all "be excellent to each other", that being "bogus" is "most non-triumphant" and that all dudes should "party on".

There have been no modifications since the last release of the license (0.3).  The license is just so good, it was time for "1.0".

So good, in fact, that everything I create and make available for download from this side (including video games, apps, comics, books and videos) are using it.

The latest revision of the license can always be found here.

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All of the software, video games and comics on this website are now available for free.

Illumination Software Creator, Linux Tycoon, Road Sign Hank and the Aliens... the whole shebang.  Free.

This isn't an experiment in funding Open Source Software.  This is a permanent change (at least as permanent as anything in this crazy, mixed up world) to the way I am distributing my software -- brought about, in part, by significant changes in my life.

I will be accepting donations that will be used to fund continued development, design and support -- including funding others to work on them.  There's even a handy-dandy set of sliders that allow you to set how much you want to donate towards various types of projects (including support for the BBS).  Those donations are entirely voluntary.  There is no catch.

Links are on the individual project pages.  And on the side of this page.  Or you can just click here.

All are entirely viable options.

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This is a (very) mintor update to the Greater Lunduke License (aka "The GLL"... aka "The Bill & Ted License").

More importantly, today everything you see here is licensed under the GLL version 0.3.  This includes items that are also licensed under the GPL -- those items are now dual-licensed.

Why are they dual licensed?  Because I feel that the GLL provides some direct (and extremely important) benefits to the consumer that the GPL simply does not.

The Greater Lunduke License
Version 0.3, August 2012

Copyright 2012 (C) Bryan Lunduke <bryan@lunduke.com>

Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim or modified copies of this license document, and changing it is allowed as long as the name of the license is changed.

PREAMBLE

The "Greater Lunduke License" is inspired, in part, by the wisdom of the Two Great Ones, Bill S. Preston, Esq. and Ted "Theodore" Logan.  Namely that we should all "be excellent to each other", that being "bogus" is "most non-triumphant" and that all dudes should "party on".

This license applies those concepts in such a way that it is applicable to all forms of content, including, but not limited to: software, books, music, movies and various works of art.

TERMS AND CONDITIONS

1. Be Excellent To Each Other.

The consumer of this work is granted the right to utilize this work in conjunction with any mechanism that is capable of utilizing it, in the form supplied by the content creator, without limitation as to specific hardware or software.

The consumer of this work may make copies of this work (physical or otherwise) for backup purposes.

The consumer of this work may lend this work to another individual provided that the following two conditions are met:  1) the lender no longer utilizes or possesses the work and 2) the work is not presently lent to another individual.

The consumer of this work may sell this work to another individual provided that the following two conditions are met:  1) the seller no longer utilizes or possesses the work and 2) once the work is sold, the seller relinquishes all rights and copies of the work to the buyer.

2. Don't Be Bogus.

The consumer of this work shall not redistribute modified, or unmodified, copies of this work without explicit written permission from the creator of this work.  The only exceptions allowed to this rule are the provisions outlined in section 1 of this license

The consumer of this work shall not hold the creator of this work liable for anything the consumer does, or does not, do, or the results of utilizing this work.

3. Party On, Dudes!

The creator of this work provides the work in a form that contains no mechanism to disable the utilization of the work after a specific date, period of time or number of uses.

If additional works, which are created and wholly owned by the work's creator, are required to utilize this work, those additional works must also be made available to the consumer so long as the following conditions are met:  1) doing so is possible and 2) doing so does not cause harm to the creator of the work.

 

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