Hello Fedora Legal,
Would software under the following license be okay for inclusion in Fedora? Should I pursue the author to relicence?
DO WHATEVER PUBLIC LICENSE*TERMS AND CONDITIONS FOR COPYING, DISTRIBUTION AND MODIFICATION
- You can do whatever you want to with the work.
- You cannot stop anybody from doing whatever they want to with the work.
- You cannot revoke anybody elses DO WHATEVER PUBLIC LICENSE in the work.
This program is free software. It comes without any warranty, to the extent permitted by applicable law. You can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the DO WHATEVER PUBLIC LICENSE
Software originally created by Justin Lloyd @ http://otakunozoku.com/
Source: https://github.com/rednex/rgbds/blob/master/LICENSE
Thank you Sanqui
On 02/27/2017 10:58 AM, David Labsky wrote:
Hello Fedora Legal,
Would software under the following license be okay for inclusion in Fedora? Should I pursue the author to relicence?
DO WHATEVER PUBLIC LICENSE*TERMS AND CONDITIONS FOR COPYING, DISTRIBUTION AND MODIFICATION
- You can do whatever you want to with the work.
- You cannot stop anybody from doing whatever they want to with the work.
- You cannot revoke anybody elses DO WHATEVER PUBLIC LICENSE in the work.
This program is free software. It comes without any warranty, to the extent permitted by applicable law. You can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the DO WHATEVER PUBLIC LICENSE
Clause 2 seems like it conflicts with clauses 0 and 1. Sublicensing should fall under "whatever you want".
Additionally, I'd be remiss if I didn't point out that I'm not sure that "do whatever you want to do" has an established legal definition. That said, we do permit the WTFPL, which has a similarly poorly worded clause, but it does not have the conflict I point out above.
Richard, setting aside the concept of "please stop writing your own ultra permissive licenses", what do you think?
~tom
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On Mon, Feb 27, 2017 at 11:50:26AM -0500, Tom Callaway wrote:
On 02/27/2017 10:58 AM, David Labsky wrote:
Hello Fedora Legal,
Would software under the following license be okay for inclusion in Fedora? Should I pursue the author to relicence?
DO WHATEVER PUBLIC LICENSE*TERMS AND CONDITIONS FOR COPYING, DISTRIBUTION AND MODIFICATION
- You can do whatever you want to with the work.
- You cannot stop anybody from doing whatever they want to with the work.
- You cannot revoke anybody elses DO WHATEVER PUBLIC LICENSE in the work.
This program is free software. It comes without any warranty, to the extent permitted by applicable law. You can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the DO WHATEVER PUBLIC LICENSE
Clause 2 seems like it conflicts with clauses 0 and 1. Sublicensing should fall under "whatever you want".
Additionally, I'd be remiss if I didn't point out that I'm not sure that "do whatever you want to do" has an established legal definition. That said, we do permit the WTFPL, which has a similarly poorly worded clause, but it does not have the conflict I point out above.
Richard, setting aside the concept of "please stop writing your own ultra permissive licenses", what do you think?
I see this as a badly drafted attempt to have a simple copyleft license that no one except the original copyright holder can enforce (which might mean it isn't really copyleft I guess).
Nevertheless from a Fedora perspective I think it should be considered a free software, GPL-incompatible license.
Richard
This is good news (even if the license is goofy). Thanks for the quick turnaround!
Have a nice day Sanqui
----- Original Message ----- From: "Tom Callaway" tcallawa@redhat.com To: "Richard Fontana" rfontana@redhat.com Cc: legal@lists.fedoraproject.org, "David Labsky" dlabsky@redhat.com Sent: Wednesday, March 1, 2017 9:23:00 PM Subject: [Fedora-legal-list] Re: DO WHATEVER PUBLIC LICENSE
On 02/28/2017 07:28 AM, Richard Fontana wrote:
Nevertheless from a Fedora perspective I think it should be considered a free software, GPL-incompatible license.
Added to the Good Licenses list, use shortname "DWPL".
~tom
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#1 contradicts to #0. "Do whatever you want" in my understanding means I can relicense it. However #1 tells me that I actually cannot relicense it to some other licenses. Also I don't get what's the status of the derived works? Does this license means I can do whatever I want only with this particular source code ("work") or with any other derived works?
I'd ask author(s) to consider CC0.
2017-02-27 16:58 GMT+01:00 David Labsky dlabsky@redhat.com:
Hello Fedora Legal,
Would software under the following license be okay for inclusion in Fedora? Should I pursue the author to relicence?
DO WHATEVER PUBLIC LICENSE*TERMS AND CONDITIONS FOR COPYING, DISTRIBUTION AND MODIFICATION
- You can do whatever you want to with the work.
- You cannot stop anybody from doing whatever they want to with the work.
- You cannot revoke anybody elses DO WHATEVER PUBLIC LICENSE in the work.
This program is free software. It comes without any warranty, to the extent permitted by applicable law. You can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the DO WHATEVER PUBLIC LICENSE
Software originally created by Justin Lloyd @ http://otakunozoku.com/
Source: https://github.com/rednex/rgbds/blob/master/LICENSE
Thank you Sanqui _______________________________________________ legal mailing list -- legal@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to legal-leave@lists.fedoraproject.org
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