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But since license terms and in general legal art is granted copyright, does one have the right to use the license for their own projects? That is, what is the license of the license?

See various controversies surrounding provincial law text being under copyright.

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Without an explicit license grant, you're not allowed to use copyrighted works for any purpose (modulo fair use). There's no reason to assume a license is licensed according to itself; most licenses aren't.

Without an explicit license grant, you wouldn't be allowed to use the license for any reason.

In this case, it's unencumbered:

> I hereby abandon all rights and claims and release the text of the Spite License into the public domain.

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