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Re:“Good Luck with That” Public License by pattisapu on Wednesday June 06, 2018 @11:50AM (#17248106)
How does do-whatever-you-want make adoption more difficult?
Re:“Good Luck with That” Public License by oconnor663 on Wednesday June 06, 2018 @11:54AM (#17248144)
Serious answer: Most companies big enough to care about this sort of thing have a list of approved open source licenses, which their lawyers have read and decided they're ok with. Using a license not on that list means you need to talk to the lawyers. That usually takes a few days of back and forth emails.
Re:“Good Luck with That” Public License by greglindahl on Wednesday June 06, 2018 @11:59AM (#17248196)
As an example, WTFPL is on IBM's list of acceptable open-source licenses.
Re:“Good Luck with That” Public License by rectang on Wednesday June 06, 2018 @11:58AM (#17248188)
Complying with the letter of an ambiguously drafted license is quite challenging, but it's important if you are an entity with a lot of assets and thus a plump target for a lawsuit.

The JSON license has made a lot of lawyers a lot of money.

Re:“Good Luck with That” Public License by lozenge on Wednesday June 06, 2018 @11:55AM (#17248156)
If the license isn't on a pre-approved list I have to send it to the in house legal team. Good Luck With That!!
Re:“Good Luck with That” Public License by gowld on Wednesday June 06, 2018 @12:05PM (#17248240)
The licenses aren't "do-whatever-you-want". They have jokes in them that are legally confounding.