Free culture licensing is its own special bugbear. While pioneers like the GPL, ISC, and even WTFPL have served their purpose, with the advent of source-available but non-libre licenses and ensnaring of public works by corporate interests, it's time we take a new tack.

To that end, I propose that new projects choose a license from what I call the "Poison Pill" class. These are licenses that are so nonsensical that any entity with an actual legal department won't use them out of terror; however, normal, every day people have no such strict adherence to legalese and can enjoy them as the art they are in themselves. Below, I've included 40 such licenses with easy-to-use template variables so you can adapt them to your project: