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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."
Although would it be possible for this license to have close to an applicable use? Ie. Software for dealing with funeral expenses. You can only use it if you are dead, and being dead gives leave for your family to access the software license only. If you aren't dead, then they or you are breaking the terms of the license. Just a thought, obviously the terms of excessive punishment may need to be edited.
Do not argue with an idiot. He will drag you down to his level and beat you with experience.
Why would someone want a developer to dual license a BSD licensed project? The BSD license is one of the most permissive there is, especially considering not all countries have the concept of public domain. It's not like it was a GPL/D&R dual licensing situation...
"linux is just DOS with a UNIX like syntax" -- Galactic Dominator (944134)
I recall that a common graphics viewer those cool new GIF files (among many other formats) wrote that if you continued using their software after 30 days without paying then a demon would be visited by demons who would torment you.
Graphics Workshop had something like this. In fact:
If you want to see additional features in Graphic Workshop, register
it. If we had an Arcturian mega-dollar for everyone who has said
they'd most certainly register their copy if we'd add just one
more thing to it, we could buy ourselves a universe and retire.
Oh yes, should you fail to support this program and continue to
use it, a leather winged demon of the night will tear itself,
shrieking blood and fury, from the endless caverns of the nether
world, hurl itself into the darkness with a thirst for blood on
its slavering fangs and search the very threads of time for the
throbbing of your heartbeat. Just thought you'd want to know
that.
Many GPL fanbois feel the BSD license is evil. I could see them demanding a dual license, and the developer giving them this subtle "go fuck yourself".
Security is mostly a superstition... Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. - Helen Keller
You don't think Windows for the Navy actually runs the mission critical systems like the reactor do you? Regardless, every system on the modern navy has a manual control system, not that you can actually hit a target with manual fire control as was proved many times during WWII, but the controls are there just in case you want to fire 1000 shells and only hit the target once.