# Licensing

> Liberty is the right to do what I like; license, the right to do what you like.

— Bertrant Russell

## Licensing, or not

You’re kidding, right? Too right. Who puts a license on code they publish on a platform like the internet?

Not I, Moriarty, not I. As a bit of a GNU/Linux advocate, I think publishing code is like opening a birdcage; when they’re out they’re gone and you lose all control. Unless your bird is a gyrfalcon, trained on the lure. Or a homing pigeon. Okay, that didn’t work. Here’s another: It’s like opening the gate to a field full of wild horses. There, that’s got it.

Slapping a license with restrictions of any kind on a library like TheGHOUL seems to me to be an exercise in futility. Who’s going to enforce Attribution, Share Alike, or even a GPL? I have better things to do, my friend, and if you’re not going to enforce it (and nobody does), why the license? Please don’t say silly things like 'honesty', and 'in good faith'…​

So, since I’m fairly confident someone will copy my code and not even remember my name, I’ve saved myself the worry: The GHOUL, the whole kit 'n caboodle, lives under the burden of The Unlicense.

Just let go.

## © Copyright

The GHOUL itself, i.e., the OpenSCAD library, as stated above, is free for the taking. However, the owner of this website claims full © copyright for The GHOUL’s documentation (The Documentation), i.e., this website, to the fullest extent enforcible by law.

You are allowed to download a copy of The Documentation for offline reading, but you may not alter, copy, or use The Documentation or any part of it, be it text or illustration, for any other purpose. You may not change the format or medium of The Documentation. You may not redistribute The Documentation or any part of it, in any manner or form.

## Linking

You may provide links to this website as follows:

http://hankjr.ca/theghoul/