License Haiku

I posted this because I remembered hearing it during his memorial service last week. I also thought it was cute then, and it was one of funnier moments in the service. But thinking about it again, I wonder if there's something a haiku can more memorably convey than the more useful format of tldrlegal cannot? The latter can obviously drill down to more detail. But the haiku version, while not only being more memorable, can provide the distilled context of the law in a way that a point by point summary doesn't.

I can't vouch for the accuracy of Aaron's particular haikus since I don't know the law that well. And I expect the haikus are flawed, since he wrote them when 16. Still, a pretty interesting idea of communicating complex terms, even if much of the value is in cuteness.

That's an interesting webpage. Thanks for sharing!

Not sure I agree with his description of the GPL license:

The archetypal bearded, sandal-clad free software license. Your code can never be used in any proprietary program, ever! Take that, capitalism!

You can totally use it in any proprietary program, you just have to provide the source as well.

i find it's a lot less annoying if you simply call them "senryu"