On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 5:30 PM, Dave Plater
On 10/19/2010 04:17 PM, Stefan Seyfried wrote:
On Mon, 18 Oct 2010 16:34:27 -0400 Jim McDonough
wrote: While this is true, the above example is simply sophomoric.
No, it is actually not. When I was still at SUSE, there was a rule saying: "nothing goes out without a license."
No matter how trivial the stuff was.
While this is a good idea in general, it just gets plain stupid to do this for every few trivial lines of code.
So I started to use the WTFPL for that. Because it is still shorter than every other license.
Ok, I admit, I did it not "just to annoy ...", but it was a nice bonus.
Have fun anyway ;-)
seife
Unfortunately licenses are necessary in today’s world of dog eat dog and even opensource needs to be protected from opertunists but for those of us who can't afford full time lawyers..., I wonder if WTFPL prevents patent sharks from hijacking your package?
I don't see how it does much of anything. It says I can do anything I want to with a package. So I can take the libcaca package and license it under a commercial license and sell it. If I in turn try to sue you for using libcaca, you would have as much hassle I suspect as if libcaca had no license at all and I tried to sue you for using it. I really don't see a value in it at all, but I'm no lawyer. Greg -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+help@opensuse.org