Common Sense License
The Common Sense
License is meant to give you easiness of mind that you are using
a (digital) work (including ideas) as its authors intended to
allow it. This license is like what could be called a "Public
Domain License", but with a touch of common sense attached.
Even though this
license is a no brainer, it still requires some common sense.
The work
released under a Common Sense License may be used by you for
anything, in any conditions and circumstances, without any
obligations toward anybody. This means that you can also sell the
work under its original name.
Just use common
sense when you use, modify, distribute, give credit or
compensation to the authors of such work, consider the
responsibility or liability of parties, and use the name of the
work.
Note that the
name of the work may be covered by other terms of use. However,
if there are no special terms of use, the name is also covered by
the Common Sense License.
Although you are
not bound or forced by the authors of the work to give them
compensation, if you don't even give them credit then, to put it
elegantly, you are neither dude nor dudette.
Although you may
claim ownership of the work, you may not deny to others to do the
same thing (which, obviously, includes the original author). You
can only deny to others ownership of the changes you make to the
work, if you release the modified work under a different license.
Once a work has
been released under a Common Sense License, its loose terms may
not be withdrawn, except for subsequent changes to the work.