The ABSD License

The BSD license is in the public domain. This means that anyone can
modify it and then distribute the modified version. What then, would
happen if I made a minor modification--lets call the modified license
ABSD, A for Adam--and I redistributed ABSD under the ABSD license?

Since I'm the copyright holder for ABSD, I can prefix any document
with the ABSD license and be done with it. But if someone else tries
to do the same, they will have to remember to prefix with a the ABSD
license with its license (the meta license)... the ABSD license.
This would go on ad infinitum.

If someone were to modify one of my ABSD documents, they would have to
keep the ABSD license intact. But not only that, the endless recursion
comes back to get them since they can't just distribute ABSD without
its license!

I'm not sure if my reasoning is valid, but just imagine how confused
everyone would become!

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