[libcaca] Re: WTFPL webpage blocked by censorware; also, relicensing

[Sam Hocevar <sam@hocevar.net>]

On Thu, Sep 08, 2011, unforgettableid wrote:

> Thank you very much for writing neercs and for licensing it under
> the WTFPL.

   First of all, thank you for your interest in neercs. We hope it
evolves one day into the pretty useful piece of software we have in
mind.

> I wanted to go to the license's webpage[*] and see if it
> really was a free software license. But when I tried, the DansGuardian
> censorware package told me it blocked the page, and that the page
> exceeds the weighted phrase limit for pornography.
>
> ^ [*]. http://sam.zoy.org/wtfpl/
>
> Could you please edit the page so that DansGuardian won't block it
> anymore?

   Sir, although I am all for everyone's access to information, I
think I value my right to ridicule and fiercely combat bigotry and
general stupidity even more. If there is a human being at DansGuardian
with fully operational cerebral hemispheres, and I am not implying
there is, who decided that the phrase "what the fuck" qualified as
"pornography", then in all honesty, knobgobbling fuckmint shitwaffles
fuck that motherfucker.

> Alternatively, could you please relicense neercs under a
> more familiar license? I suggest the MIT License. This is because it
> includes a good warranty disclaimer, which is definitely worth having.

   I am afraid the WTFPL is a lot more familiar to me for obvious
reasons. But this is where its truly everloving magical power comes into
play: anyone can relicence a WTFPL work under the MIT licence, and I
sure hope they will appreciate their performing that task to the fullest
extent of its agreeableness and with the satisfaction that not a single
byte of the original licence needs to remain.

   Also, I believe that a "no warranty" clause should be separate from
the licence itself because 1) a licence can be used for many works
other than software and 2) there could be dispositions, typically in
a state-industry partnership contract, where some warranties cannot
in fact be limited nor excluded, and I would certainly not want to be
accused of trying to hinder the acceptance of the WTFPL in the context
of state-industry partnerships.

Kindest regards,
-- 
Sam.
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