Revised License Committee Report for March 2009

[Lawrence Rosen]

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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