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Re: [opensuse-packaging] Question about the presence of expletives in package libcaca (Further Update)
  • From: Jim McDonough <jmcdonough@xxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2010 16:34:27 -0400
  • Message-id: <4CBCAF53.8020706@xxxxxxx>
On 10/18/2010 06:44 AM, Michael Matz wrote:
Hi,

On Mon, 18 Oct 2010, Juergen Weigert wrote:

Just drop the badwords patch. If IBM has nothing better to do, they
can reopen that bug for SLES12... Nobody should care about such stuff
for openSUSE.

I deliberately use the WTFPL for all my trivial software, just to
annoy people like those IBM lawyers... :-)

The WTFPL succeeded in annoying IBM. We know that, as they came our way
with a complaint. So you also keep suse legal team busy.

A license statement is the wrong place for exercising freedom of speech.

Actually it's one of the best places.
While this is true, the above example is simply sophomoric.


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