This license gives everyone as much permission to work with this software as possible, while protecting contributors from liability and creating personal connections between them and the people using their work.
In order to receive this license, you must first introduce yourself to Joel Dueck by sending a friendly email to joel @ jdueck.net from an email address at which you can be reliably reached.
If you are simply redistributing unmodified copies of this software, or using goods or services developed by others that make use of this software, you do not need to introduce yourself.
If you have already emailed Joel to receive a license for other software that uses this license, you don’t need to do it again unless you no longer use the email address you used last time.
Make sure everyone who gets a copy of any part of this software from you, with or without changes, also gets the text of this license.
No contributor will share your contact information, or any information shared in your emails (names, locations, projects, plans, etc.), without your explicit consent.
Each contributor licenses you to do everything with this software that would otherwise infringe that contributor's copyright in it.
Each contributor licenses you to do everything with this software that would otherwise infringe any patent claims they can license or become able to license.
If anyone notifies you in writing that you have not complied with Introduce Yourself or Notices, you can get forgiveness and receive a license by taking all practical steps to comply within thirty days after the notice.
No contributor can revoke this license.
As far as the law allows, this software comes as is, without any warranty or condition, and no contributor will be liable to anyone for any damages related to this software or this license, under any kind of legal claim.