WTFPL approval, please?

[Bruce Perens]

Sir, isn't your complaint with Sourceforge, rather than OSI?

I'm on their advisory board. If you would like to draft a proper 
complaint, I'll pass it on.

    Thanks

    Bruce

Makc wrote:
> Hello list,
>
> This request is about WTFPL license, full text at http://sam.zoy.org/wtfpl/
>
> This license has made it to "version 2", and apparently fits in
> "Legacy Approval" submission type - freshmeat has 9 projects listed
> under this license (see http://freshmeat.net/browse/1008/ ), I don't
> know if it goes under "popular" proliferation by OSI standards (maybe
> "misc" ?)
>
> The reason why this license needs OSI approval (and also "Link to
> earlier public discussions") can be seen at
> http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=350001&aid=1725061&group_id=1
> - after two years of silence sourceforge suddenly denies me the right
> to license my project under WTFPL... ha. Well, sourceforge registers
> many new projects every day, and I believe that you guys just can't
> allow the lack of OSI approval be used as an excuse to deny all that
> project authors a right to use the license of their choise, can you.
>
> Yours,
> makc
>