Revised License Committee Report for March 2009

Martin Michlmayr tbm at cyrius.com
Mon Mar 16 09:03:03 UTC 2009


* Russ Nelson <nelson at crynwr.com> [2009-03-15 01:41]:
> 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.

That's not true.  As I said during the OSI call, the WTFPL was written
in Europe where you don't seem to be able to put something into the
public domain.  So you need a license that effectively does the same.

-- 
Martin Michlmayr
http://www.cyrius.com/



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