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Polyglot Public License: your fork must incorporate at least one programming language the original project did not use

@boots okay but what happens when you run out of interoperable compiled languages and need to start using scripting languages

it'd be easy at first but then get *hilarious*

especially if you add the provision that the new language must be older than the original project, so as to avoid the forker inventing DSLs just for the license

@typhlosion have a scripts or tools folder that does stuff with the program

@boots sure! this is fair. but i imagine all the popular languages are still eventually gonna get taken up if it gets forked enough, and then you'll have to start getting more creative

@typhlosion @boots i think it'd get MORE hilarious if you let forkers invent new languages specifically for the project though

@boots @00dani MUMPS, Piet, and Chef already exist. my dream is to see a project that, by sheer exhaustion of languages, is forced to use all three

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