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License

All content on Paradox Online is published under the MIT No Attribution license.

MIT No Attribution

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Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this
software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software
without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify,
merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to
permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED,
INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A
PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT
HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION
OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE
SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.

TL;DR: Do whatever you want, even if you live in a country without a public domain! MIT No Attribution is a public-domain-equivalent license.

Why not the Unlicense, WTFPL, etc.?

Short answer: they're public domain dedications, which don't apply everywhere.

Long answer: they're public domain dedications, which have questionable legality internationally. For example, Germany does not have a public domain. Public domain dedication licenses are invalid in countries like Germany, so content that uses them falls back to All Rights Reserved. That's not what I'm aiming for at all, so I chose MIT-0, a license that gives the same permissions as public domain dedication while still retaining copyright.

Why not 0BSD?

(0BSD, or the 0-clause BSD license, is another public-domain-equivalent license.)

I just like the wording of MIT-0 better. It's more specific about all of the wonderful things you can do with the software.