Fwd: [jira] [Commented] (LEGAL-135) Is the WTFPL license acceptable

[David Nalley <da...@gnsa.us>]

FYI - comments welcome. Also it would be interesting to know what
alternatives exist for this library
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Subject: [jira] [Commented] (LEGAL-135) Is the WTFPL license acceptable
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Sam Ruby commented on LEGAL-135:
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It looks like OSI rejected this license:

 http://www.opensource.org/minutes20090304

The initial reason proposed for rejection ("public domain doesn't exist in
Europe") would be a concern but it doesn't appear that the OSI could come
to an agreement on this.  The ultimate reason they rejected this
("redundant to the Fair License") is not a concern to us.

We could task one of our legal resources with coming up with an opinion in
the hopes of coming up with a general policy, but unless this turns out to
be a common request, I would much rather we focus initially on a tightly
scoped exception for a single project.

So, questions for CloudStack: would it be possible for licensees of
CloudStack to chose to operate without operate without jquery.times,
possibly with reduced functionality?  How (precisely) would this license be
communicated?  Do we know of any actual or potential users (including both
Free and proprietary usages) of CloudStack who have actual concerns about
this license?



> Is the WTFPL license acceptable
> -------------------------------
>
>                 Key: LEGAL-135
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LEGAL-135
>             Project: Legal Discuss
>          Issue Type: Question
>            Reporter: David Nalley
>
> Apache CloudStack (incubating) is trying to vet all of the bundled
libraries and dependencies. One such library is jquery.times [1], which is
released under the WTFPL [2], which we'd like to continue using. I suppose
that we could perform an end run around this issue and merely re-license
the software as that appears to be explicitly permitted, but that seems a
bit squirrely.
> [1] http://archive.plugins.jquery.com/node/3656/release
> [2] http://sam.zoy.org/wtfpl/

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