Alexander Berntsen <[email protected]> writes: > Geez. It's a joke. Lighten up, people.
Yes, I get that it's a joke. We all get it. And if it was just us I wouldn't mind. But as I said before, try to (as I have) to explain these jokes at your company to a room of people who are hostile and/or ignorant of free software and the joke loses its shine really fast. Moreover, people from the free software community who want to use software licensed under a joke license have to stop short and start searching around to see if it is even a valid license. So this joke ends up taking up people's time and effort. Finally, license proliferation is a real problem: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/License_proliferation On a personal note, my stance is a function of my being with the GPL Compliance Lab for a decade now. I've seen the real-world impact, so for me these jokes have long stopped being amusing. These days I cringe every time I see a vanity license or a joke license and hope that nobody will use it for anything that's important to the community. -- "Cut your own wood and it will warm you twice"
