Revised License Committee Report for March 2009
Lawrence Rosen
lrosen at rosenlaw.com
Sun Mar 15 02:49:10 UTC 2009
Russ Nelson wrote:
> The only (ONLY) reason to write a license rather than putting your
> software into the public domain is because you plan to sue at least
> one of your users eventually.
...Or because you want to defend yourself from lawsuit eventually....
I would sincerely appreciate a more polite discussion between you two. It
isn't that I've not heard the words before, but they're funnier from Richard
Pryor than from either of you.
/Larry
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Russ Nelson [mailto:nelson at crynwr.com]
> Sent: Saturday, March 14, 2009 6:42 PM
> To: license-review at opensource.org
> Subject: Re: Revised License Committee Report for March 2009
>
> wtfpl user writes:
> > Well, something may well seem obviously stupid to you
> > (absolute-fuckin'-ly) but I fail to see what.
>
> The only (ONLY) reason to write a license rather than putting your
> software into the public domain is because you plan to sue at least
> one of your users eventually. Presumably also, you are going to write
> your license so that there is SOME WAY that a licensee can violate it.
> The WTFPL is impossible to violate, since I can do whatever the fuck I
> want. Thus, it is a license with no reason to exist, and a license
> which the OSI has no reason to approve.
>
> End of story.
>
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