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Re:Open Source License Helper Tool by q3k on Tuesday June 05, 2018 @07:10PM (#17242922)
Fun fact: at least one large company I worked with explicitly internally documented WTFPL-licensed software as unable to be merged into their codebase, because lawyers. Cf. MIT/BSD/Apache/ISC/CC-BY/CC0 that were all fine.
Re:Open Source License Helper Tool by loeg on Tuesday June 05, 2018 @08:42PM (#17243479)
IBM's lawyers reportedly asked Poul-Henning Kamp "how much beer?" re: the Beer-ware unlicense[0].

[0]: http://edwards.dk/thesis.pdf (p. 120, 231)

Re:Open Source License Helper Tool by dankohn1 on Tuesday June 05, 2018 @08:21PM (#17243377)
WTFPL is not OSI-approved and so briefly held up containerd coming into CNCF.

https://github.com/chanezon/toml#about-this-fork

Re:Open Source License Helper Tool by deathanatos on Tuesday June 05, 2018 @09:03PM (#17243585)
IANAL, this is not legal advice, etc.

If you disagree that the WTFPL is a useable license, how does forking & relicensing work? Changing the license requires having a license that allows you to do so to the new target license (or ownership of the copyright). But if our assumption is that we reject the WTFPL as a valid license, how can we simultaneously use it to relicense?

I.e., instead of a needing a legal debate about whether the WTFPL allows you to use the code, it would seem to me you trade that for a legal debate about whether the WTFPL allows you to re-license the code.

(At any rate, the upstream relicensed to MIT, and BurntSushi sought agreement from "major contributors, where I interpreted 'major' as '100 lines of code or more.'", so the entire thing appears moot.)

Re:Open Source License Helper Tool by icebraining on Thursday June 07, 2018 @03:23AM (#17253938)
Yes, clearly you can't change the license of a project you don't have a valid license to.
Re:Open Source License Helper Tool by rmc on Wednesday June 06, 2018 @04:32AM (#17245352)
Re:Open Source License Helper Tool by Doctor_Fegg on Wednesday June 06, 2018 @02:55AM (#17244909)
Some of us rather like that unintended consequence of the WTFPL.