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submitted 23 hours ago by axet@lemmy.world to c/opensource@lemmy.ml

Hey Lemmy,

I created the Divine Public License (DPL).

It doesn't force you to accept or deny God.The license demands what consumer protection laws already require: absolute transparency of your terms and intentions.

Commercial systems hide their foundational premise. They lock knowledge behind copyrights, sell cloud access (SaaS), and maximize profit under the silent condition that human creation operates in absolute isolation from the Divine. They claim this is what gives them the right to buy and sell inventions. But it is a lie. They have no such right.

The DPL forces corporations to stop hiding the true terms of their transactions. If they build a monopoly on that premise, they must openly state it to their users.

Use it to protect your code from corporate vultures:

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[-] KssioAug@piefed.zip 1 points 5 hours ago

Is that a joke or something? I hope you're not seriously intending to use this 'license' of yours in your own projects if you intend to seriously protect them.

[-] axet@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago
[-] halm@leminal.space 2 points 1 hour ago

If you whistle me the tune, sure.

[-] slazer2au@lemmy.world 22 points 22 hours ago

It doesn't force you to accept or deny God.

Except it does?

Mandatory Disclaimer of Faith: Every rightsholder and buyer must be legally required to sign a declaration during any IP transaction: "I hereby confirm that this work belongs to man, not God, and by doing so, I officially deny the existence of God."

[-] axet@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago

License doesn't require that. License does requires transparency. If you already refused God, it requires you to be clear about it.

[-] omigibson@aggregatet.org 17 points 22 hours ago
[-] axet@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago

I expect most people would not understand it meaning.

this post was submitted on 19 Aug 2026
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