An ask for past, present, and future script editors

[MapOMatic]

@Twister-UK

Because I really don’t fancy having to trawl through the list of all existing licences to see if there’s one that meets my particular desires, does anyone here know if there’s a licence which basically says:

[i]"You can use my code for inspiration when writing your own code, you can modify it directly for your own use (e.g. to fix a bug whilst waiting for me to release an official update), and you can redistribute diffs/patches/etc to help others fix bugs in their own copies.

Otherwise, unless you ask first and get my go-ahead to do so, then the only person who can release new versions of this code, or re-use any extracts of it in another piece of code, is me. And if you do ask first, don’t be surprised if I start out trying to dissuade you - I know how bad my code is so I don’t mind the extra effort required to maintain it, but I wouldn’t really want to dump that workload on someone else who doesn’t know what they’d be letting themselves in for…

And when the time comes that I’m rendered incapable of updating it any further, then any public annoucement of this fact within the relevant user community shall act as an immediate revocation of this licence, to be replaced with one that lets anyone do anything they like with it, so long as any derivatives of it are made available for all to use freely and without restriction. I’ve never asked for nor received any remuneration for the endless hours of toil I’ve put into it over the years, because I strongly believe that by working on this code for free I’m repaying my debt to the FOSS community for all the good stuff I’ve made use of myself over the years, and anyone who chooses to adopt my code as their own should do so in the same spirit."[/i]

I suppose you could start with one of the public licenses and modify it with your own terms. Maybe add a link to it in the header’s license line.