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Would You Die To Respect a Software License?
Julie188 writes "Some 2,000 licenses cover the 230,000+ projects in Black Duck's open source knowledge base. While 10 licenses comprise 93% of the software, that leaves 1,980-odd licenses for the other 3% — and some of them have really crazy conditions. The Death and Repudiation License, for instance, requires the user to be dead."
Which license redefines math so that 1980 + 10 = 2000, and taking 93% leaves only 3% remaining?
If the masses can keep you down, you're not the Ubermensch.
Here's some more ideas:
Would you smell a nasty fart to prevent terrorism?
Would you give up your ability to see if it meant you could time travel?
Would you listen to an entire Britney Spears album if it could bring about world peace?
There's no -1 for "I don't get it."
I strongly suspect the D&R license is a BSD license fan responding to someone wanting them to dual-license something.
upon the advice of my lawyer, i have no sig at this time
The Death and Repudiation License is nothing compared to the EULA of iPhone OS 5.1
One of my schoolmates released some software with a custom license, which was basically the old-form original UC Berkeley BSD license with a restriction prohibiting any use by persons in "Country Code F", defined as (paraphrasing from memory):
"France, Belgium, Quebec, Sengal, Ghana, Did we mention France?"
I think it was bad experiences with language classes in high school, but I'm not sure.
Aw, come on, most of those are easy to pick. How about something that strains our decision engines a little bit?
-- Would you take a job as Steve "Monkeyboy" Ballmer's toe-cheese extractor if it meant Microsoft would publish only via OSS licenses?
-- Would you take a position as Steve "Tyrant" Jobs' fashion consultant if it meant Apple would open up the app store?
-- Would you lick Stallman's neck and armpit if it meant GNU/Hurd became a complete, usable, modern kernel?
These are the type of choices that would keep me up at night.
"Trolls they were, but filled with the evil will of their master: a fell race..." -- J.R.R. Tolkien on Olog-hai
...."the design, construction, operation or maintenance of any nuclear facility." That's in Sun's EULA. For real.
"I don't care about the Constitution!" --Bill O'Reilly, November 17, 2009
I suppose it would be a worthy sacrifice.
I am willing to expend my life in pursuit of turtlenecks if it means Openness for all.
No! Not in a thousand lifetimes, no! What do you think I am, you sick twisted fuck?!?
Crumb's Corollary: Never bring a knife to a bun fight.
-- Would you lick Stallman's neck and armpit if it meant GNU/Hurd became a complete, usable, modern kernel?
Would get Stallman to finally shut up? If so, I'd definitely consider it.
Security is mostly a superstition... Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. - Helen Keller