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From: "Ulrich Mueller (ulm)" <ulm@g.o>
To: gentoo-commits@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in licenses: No-Problem-Bugroff
Date: Wed, 07 Oct 2009 20:14:00
Message-Id: E1MvctZ-0007Xb-PS@stork.gentoo.org
1 ulm 09/10/07 20:13:57
2
3 Modified: No-Problem-Bugroff
4 Log:
5 Refetched from http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Cafe/5947/bugroff.html using "lynx -dump -nonumbers" and minimal manual reformatting.
6
7 Revision Changes Path
8 1.2 licenses/No-Problem-Bugroff
9
10 file : http://sources.gentoo.org/viewcvs.py/gentoo-x86/licenses/No-Problem-Bugroff?rev=1.2&view=markup
11 plain: http://sources.gentoo.org/viewcvs.py/gentoo-x86/licenses/No-Problem-Bugroff?rev=1.2&content-type=text/plain
12 diff : http://sources.gentoo.org/viewcvs.py/gentoo-x86/licenses/No-Problem-Bugroff?r1=1.1&r2=1.2
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14 Index: No-Problem-Bugroff
15 ===================================================================
16 RCS file: /var/cvsroot/gentoo-x86/licenses/No-Problem-Bugroff,v
17 retrieving revision 1.1
18 retrieving revision 1.2
19 diff -u -r1.1 -r1.2
20 --- No-Problem-Bugroff 14 May 2004 18:41:03 -0000 1.1
21 +++ No-Problem-Bugroff 7 Oct 2009 20:13:57 -0000 1.2
22 @@ -37,26 +37,30 @@
23
24 All portions of this license are important..
25
26 -"Sure, no problem." Gives you complete freedom. I mean it. Utterly
27 -complete. A bit of a joke really. You have complete freedom anyway.
28 -"Don't worry, be happy." Apart from being good advice and a good song,
29 -it also says :- No matter what anyone else says or does, you still
30 -have complete freedom. Now bugger off. The only way to get rid of
31 -pushy Jackals is to ignore them and not feed them. The GPL is just
32 -begging somebody to take it to court. Can't you just see it. Exactly
33 -the same thing that happened when some twit (not Linus) registered
34 -Linux as his own personal trademark. People got upset, started a fund,
35 -and hired, off all ruddy things, a Jackal to try and defend the
36 -chicken! Who really benefits from this trademark / patent / copyright
37 -thing anyway? The lawyers. Who made it up in the first place? The
38 -lawyers. OK so the last part of the license sounds a bit harsh, but
39 -seriously folks, if you are a :-
40 + * "Sure, no problem." Gives you complete freedom. I mean it. Utterly
41 + complete. A bit of a joke really. You have complete freedom anyway.
42 + * "Don't worry, be happy." Apart from being good advice and a good
43 + song, it also says :- No matter what anyone else says or does, you
44 + still have complete freedom.
45 + * Now bugger off. The only way to get rid of pushy Jackals is to
46 + ignore them and not feed them. The GPL is just begging somebody to
47 + take it to court. Can't you just see it. Exactly the same thing
48 + that happened when some twit (not Linus) registered Linux as his
49 + own personal trademark. People got upset, started a fund, and
50 + hired, off all ruddy things, a Jackal to try and defend the
51 + chicken! Who really benefits from this trademark / patent /
52 + copyright thing anyway? The lawyers. Who made it up in the first
53 + place? The lawyers.
54
55 -Lawyer asking these legalese questions... You should go off and learn
56 -an honest trade that will actually contribute to life instead of
57 -draining it. Programmer asking these legalese questions... You have
58 -amazingly powerful tools in your hands and mind, use them to ask and
59 -answer the worthwhile questions of life, the universe and
60 -everything. Stop mucking about with such legal nonsense and get back
61 -to programming. User/reader asking these question... Don't worry. Go
62 -off and be happy. Have fun. Enjoy what has been created for you.
63 \ No newline at end of file
64 +OK so the last part of the license sounds a bit harsh, but seriously
65 +folks, if you are a :-
66 +
67 + * Lawyer asking these legalese questions... You should go off and
68 + learn an honest trade that will actually contribute to life instead
69 + of draining it.
70 + * Programmer asking these legalese questions... You have amazingly
71 + powerful tools in your hands and mind, use them to ask and answer
72 + the worthwhile questions of life, the universe and everything. Stop
73 + mucking about with such legal nonsense and get back to programming.
74 + * User/reader asking these question... Don't worry. Go off and be
75 + happy. Have fun. Enjoy what has been created for you.