Distasteful though it is for me to have to induce from afar any perturbation into your pursuit of happiness, this MIT (X11 flavour) license is at least relatively benign. Investigation into copyright stupidity reveals that it is effectively impossible to dedicate (formally) any software to the public domain (the only sure path to this most enlightened status being to leave the software to expire naturally from its 25-, 50-, 75- or whatever-year copyright rot). I fear this is not going to change before the revolution comes. In the meantime the only way I can *guarantee* you any rights at all to this software would (unfortunately) appear to be... Copyright (c) 2005 Ian Piumarta All rights reserved. Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the 'Software'), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, provided that the above copyright notice(s) and this permission notice appear in all copies or substantial portions of the Software. Inclusion of the above copyright notice(s) and this permission notice in supporting documentation would be appreciated, but is not required. THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED 'AS IS'. USE ENTIRELY AT YOUR OWN RISK.