Answer by Kaz for How can a "crayon" license be a problem?
An important part of the BSD license is the warranty disclaimer.You might think it's a breath of fresh air and entertaining to the users to apply something like the WTFPL.Then you wind up being sued...
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One particular problem is that your home-knit license is probably incompatible with everything else, and thus creates an island that is useless to everybody else, even if the intent is to be very free....
View ArticleAnswer by Basile Starynkevitch for How can a "crayon" license be a problem?
Developers inside big corporations (and perhaps even smaller ones) have lawyers and managers dictating them conditions for using (professionally) external free software. A "crayon license" is very...
View ArticleAnswer by Free Radical for How can a "crayon" license be a problem?
In addition to the excellent (and accepted) answer posted by Kevin, I want to point out the following:It is sometimes argued that having license behaving predictable in a court of law only matters if...
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There are several issues:License proliferation - The more licenses we have floating around, the more work everyone has to do to understand them. Case law for one license will not necessarily apply to a...
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Bruce Perens (co-founder of OSI) has coined the term "crayon license":I've been calling these "crayon licenses", taking a line from an old Monty Python sketch about a dog license with the word "dog"...
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