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WTFPL is not OSI-approved and so briefly held up containerd coming into CNCF. https://github.com/chanezon/toml#about-this-fork https://github.com/chanezon/toml
by dankohn1 8y ago
WTFPL is not OSI-approved and so briefly held up containerd coming into CNCF.
https://github.com/chanezon/toml#about-this-fork https://github.com/chanezon/toml#about-this-fork
- deathanatos 8y agoIANAL, this is not legal advice, etc. If you disagree that the WTFPL is a useable license, how does forking & relicensing work? Changing the license requires having a license that allows you to do so to the new target license (or ownership of the copyright). But if our assumption is that we reject the WTFPL as a valid license, how can we simultaneously use it to relicense? I.e., instead of a needing a legal debate about whether the WTFPL allows you to use the code, it would seem to me you trade that for a legal debate about whether the WTFPL allows you to re-license the code. (At any rate, the upstream relicensed to MIT, and BurntSushi sought agreement from "major contributors, where I interpreted 'major' as '100 lines of code or more.'", so the entire thing appears moot.)
- icebraining 8y agoYes, clearly you can't change the license of a project you don't have a valid license to.