[libcaca] Industry Leading Colour ASCII Art Library Changes Licensing To WTFPL

[Sam Hocevar <sam@zoy.org>]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Industry Leading Colour ASCII Art Library Changes Licensing To WTFPL
Saturday March 4, 2006

Sam (ZOY) - Paris, France: in a tactial move not unforeseen by the most
acute stock analysts, developers of the famous libcaca ASCII art library
unanimously decided to change their main product's licensing terms from
the LGPL to the WTFPL.

It took less than four hours for all libcaca copyright holders to
be reached and give permission to relicense their work, more than
eight thousand times less time than the Mozilla project, who started
relicensing its codebase in autumn 2001 but suddenly got taken over by
a group of furries who decided that changing the name of their browser
three or four times was more important than changing its license.

The creator of libcaca said in a statement today, "I was bored and I
just needed to exercise my authority on the project." Sam, whose latest
SVN checkin messages have consisted exclusively of variations of "coding
style fixes", "fixed Jylam's awful indentation" and "who the hell gave
an SVN account to that filthy ape," is not believed to have written
anything useful for libcaca in the last two years. Jylam, busy with his
girlfriend and/or PSP, was not available for comment.

About libcaca:
libcaca is the industry leading colour ASCII art library. It serves
no real purpose except for VLC and MPlayer zealots to show off at
Linux conferences with garbled screens showing random letters not even
remotely resembling a movie. Approximately 0 geeks have managed to get
laid using this technique.

About the WTFPL:
The Do What The Fuck You Want To Public License is a popular free
software license suffering none of the obnoxious licensing clauses of
the BSD or FSF licenses. A massive 3 pieces of software are known to use
the WTFPL, totaling literally tens of users.

About the LGPL:
The GNU Lesser General Public License is one of the most obscure pieces
of legalese in existence, only second to the Surrogates Court Procedure
Act for the State of New-York. It is believed to be the major reason for
OpenSource's utter failure to gain the slightest desktop marketshare,
because even a Microsoft EULA is easier to read.

-- 
Sam.
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