[bee_rider]

I like it so far, other than

4) You recognize that any request for support for the Program will be discarded with extreme prejudice.

I think that should be a "may" rather than a "will." If I find out someone is using my obscure academic code, and they ask for help, I'd be pretty pumped to help them (on easy requests at least).

[inanutshellus]

The point of the license is to set your expectations as low as possible. Then, when you actually /do/ get support, you'll be ecstatic rather than non-plussed.

[kragen]

Discarding a request for support with extreme prejudice might entail using LinkedIn to look up the boss of the person who asked you for support, then phoning them up to complain about the request for support, or it might entail filing for a restraining order against the person requestings support. The point of this clause is to intimidate people out of making the request in the first place.

[bee_rider]

That's a pretty over the top reading.

[kragen]

You should probably familiarize yourself with the meaning of the phrases it's alluding to, "dismissed with extreme prejudice" and "terminated with extreme prejudice".

[leksak]

When phrased like this,

> 4) You recognize that any request for support for the Program will be discarded with extreme prejudice.

There is no way I'd even make a request for support.

[bee_rider]

Exactly. If nothing else, a request for support has a chance of being an indication that there's somebody else in the field that cares about some aspect of the problem. I might not act on it, but it is good to have some other human-generated signal that says "look over there."