[onan_barbarian]

Absolutely agreed. As I posted elsewhere on the thread these insane custom licenses guarantee that you can't use this code for anything serious. Even if you wanted to work on a project as a hobbyist, you can't redistribute this code. So if this guy gets hit by a bus or decides that he doesn't want to release this code any more, tough.

What's more is that as this HN post conveys, there are plenty of libraries like this, many being developed under much less bizarre licenses.

The thing that I find particularly bizarre is that I have a lot of understanding for people who craft custom licenses to make money to support a project (or do dual-license stuff). But this just seems self-defeating. I honestly just stopped reading at LICENSE.

There's also a ton of frisky legal bullshit:

"(11) Should any provision of this license agreement be or become invalid, this shall not affect the validity of the remaining provisions. Any invalid provision shall be replaced by a valid provision which corresponds to the meaning and purpose of the invalid provision."

Ah yes, the old "if my clause is legal garbage, magically replace it by what I meant and enforce that".