Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-packaging (214 mails)

[Stefan Seyfried <stefan.seyfried@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 19 Oct 2010 18:35:38 -0400
Greg Freemyer <greg.freemyer@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 5:30 PM, Dave Plater <davejplater@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > us who can't afford full time lawyers..., I wonder if WTFPL prevents
> > patent sharks from hijacking your package?

It does not. That's why I usually use it only for those trivial pieces of
code that are obvious anyway. Basically the pieces of code that I would
have licensed as "Public Domain". But unfortunately there is no such thing
as "Public Domain" where I live IIUC, and there are lots of different
definitions of "Public Domain" around the world.

> I don't see how it does much of anything.
>
> It says I can do anything I want to with a package.

Yes, and it says it explicitely.

> I really don't see a value in it at all, but I'm no lawyer.

Not explicitly saying "do whatever you want to do with it" is not the
same, because then local laws etc. might give a different set of
"defaults".

Have fun,

        seife
-- 
Stefan Seyfried

"Any ideas, John?"
"Well, surrounding them's out."
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