# The **T**erse **P**ublic **L**icense Family (TPL)

A set of small software licenses, meant to be as short and minimal as
the BSD family, and as customizable as the Creative Commons family.

There is:
- a Public Domain Dedication,
- a Non-commercial License,
- and a variant of the former with attribution.

Each supports minimal edits to the language, such as changing
"creator(s)" to "creator" for solo projects, or "software" to "work"
for non-software projects.

The wizard is available at [aleteoryx.tilde.institute][0].

## Reasoning

The purpose of this project is twofold, and can be best articulated as
two complaints with the state of software licensing:

- Many commonly used licenses are more verbose than is necessary for
small projects.
- Licenses are pigeonholed into either software (GPL, BSD, etc) or
artistic (CC) categories, with the language of each category not
well-equipped to handle the other.

TPL seeks to remedy this, by offering terse licenses with configurable
language.

## Contributing

TPL accepts contributions! The main author is no lawyer, and is mostly
basing the language here off of existing licenses. If there are
loopholes or flaws in these, please [let them know][1]!

For documentation on the templating format, go [here][2].

[0]: https://aleteoryx.tilde.institute/tpl
[1]: mailto:~aleteoryx/tpl-discuss@lists.amehut.dev
[2]: https://git.amehut.dev/~aleteoryx/tpl/tree/master/item/FORMAT.md