Mark Holmquist <[email protected]> writes: > On 12/18/2015 05:39 AM, Julien Kyou wrote: >> This pisses me off "Choose Freedom." "Probably the best license out there" >> >> >Copyright (C) 2004 Sam Hocevar <[email protected]> >> > >> >Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim or modified >> copies of this license document, and changing it is allowed as long as >> the name is changed. >> > >> >>meaning only this document not the licensed materials >> > >> >DO WHAT THE FUCK YOU WANT TO PUBLIC LICENSE TERMS AND >CONDITIONS FOR >> COPYING, DISTRIBUTION AND MODIFICATION >> > >> >0. You just DO WHAT THE FUCK YOU WANT TO. >> >>so basically closing the source is ok? >> > >> >> wtfpl.net <http://wtfpl.net> >> >> I just learned of the existence of this licenses 30 minutes ago, so >> sorry if its not news. > > What's bad about the WTFPL?
It used to be a lot worse before the FSF reviewed the license. Before that GPL Compliance Lab, where I volunteer, would get questions from people asking whether it's even a real license. That means that this joke license (and other joke licenses) force people to deal with licensing issues instead of writing software. Now just imagine, when you are in a board-room in a non-English speaking country trying to convince skeptical people who don't understand American culture to use free software, joke licenses make you, and the entire software freedom movement, look like a bunch of immature kids playing around: http://yrk.rabkins.net/2014/05/28/the-culture-post.html -- "Cut your own wood and it will warm you twice"
