Who told you that reading a license is boring?
In the last 24 hours I implemented Licenses validation, whitelisting, masking and database support to Entropy. When I started, I tried to find out if someone (maybe crazy like me?) had already made a list of free (as in freedom and/or beer) software licenses. I didn’t dig too much and decided to have a look at /usr/portage/licenses. OMG, 811 licenses to read! Yeah, I read them all and I’ve found something really funny. So, Who told ya that reading a license is boring?
WTFPL-2 (This is my favorite one):
DO WHAT THE FUCK YOU WANT TO PUBLIC LICENSE
Version 2, December 2004
Copyright (C) 2004 Sam Hocevar
22 rue de Plaisance, 75014 Paris, France
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.
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.
ut2003 (Thanks thanks thanks. WTF? For what? Licensing?? Cramp? Styple? Isn’t that a serious license?):
1. Thanks. Congratulations and thank you for licensing our
software. We're sorry to cramp your style, but out lawyers tell
us that if we want to keep control and ownership of the cool
stuff we're developing, we have to make sure you understand and
agree that you are just getting a right to use it and that that
right is limited in certain ways. So here's what follows is what
you need to know and agree to.
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