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Re: Advice on licenses with "funny" amendments



On Thu, 7 Oct 2021 23:56:57 +0200 Dominik George wrote:

> Hi,

Hello!

> 
> some times, we (the AlekSIS team) stumble upon upstream maintainers
> who consider it funny to add amendments to licenses, or make up fun
> licenses on their own.

Personally, I think licenses and jokes are best left distinct.
Inserting the latter into the former is often a bad idea...

[...]
>   "BUT if you become a millionaire using this code, please bought
>    me a new brand luxury sailboat."
[...]
>   "Please do whatever your mom would approve of. No tattoos,
>    No touching food with unwashed hands, No exchanging for drugs"
[...]

However, these two examples look more like kind requests, rather than
legally binding requirements.

The first one says "please bought me" [I think it should be "please buy
me"]: you are not forced to do so.
The second starts with "Please do". I think the continuation "No ...
No ... No ..." is just an enumeration of what your mom would disapprove
of.

What do other debian-legal participants think?


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