Alexander Berntsen <[email protected]> writes: > On 21/12/15 16:54, Yoni Rabkin wrote: >> 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. > Fuck those people.
Really? Why did you even bother writing that? How is that helpful? I guess it provides you with some kind of catharsis, but I don't know you. >> 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 > It was never meant to be used for any actually useful software. If > someone use a joke licence for their proper software, that's on them. The wtfpl site (http://www.wtfpl.net/showcase/) showcases useful software licensed under the terms of the license and asks: "Know some important or noteworthy work using the WTFPL? Let us know in the comments!". Then they go on to defend the validity of the wtfpl as a license in the FAQ entry: "Is the WTFPL a valid license?". So I don't understand where you get that impression. -- "Cut your own wood and it will warm you twice"
