Legal enforceability of licenses
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Some licenses are intended to give freedom, but I wonder if they are really free, such as this custom license for Bitcoin-Ticker, a Firefox addon.
Bitcoin-Ticker 1.0.4
Source Code License
Freedom
Do what thou wilt.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/bitcoin-ticker/license/1.0.4
The language is archaic, but it very clearly tells you to do what you want. EDIT: The one potential problem, and you'd need to ask a lawyer if it's a problem, is it doesn't explicitly say that you're allowed to modify and distribute.
its probabaly the same as WTFPL which is fsf approved, but not osi approved.
That was my thought at first, but I looked and the FSF only mentions on gnu.org/licenses that version 2 of the WTFPL is approved; version 1 isn't commented on. Version 2 has some extra text that makes it more clear what you can "do what the f*** you want" with. I guess that version 1 would be free as well, which would basically guarantee that this one is, but I'm not entirely sure, and not a lawyer.
How would I add this add-on to the Abrowser add-on page? There is no selection for the "Do what thou wilt" license.
I guess you could add it as MIT or BSD and explain in the text part.
My interpretation of said license is it's free. Anything goes.
A surprising revelation...
On this[0] page, it says the add-on is derived from bitcoin-prices, another Firefox add-on. On the Github page of bitcoin-prices,[1] the license is GPL v3. The license file was added on July 14, 2013, but the last update of bitcoin-ticker was on March 29, 2013.
[0] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/bitcoin-ticker/
[1] https://github.com/frewsxcv/Bitcoin-Prices
Bump!
(Ow!)
Heh,
I guess you could ask the -prices guys what the license was before GPL3.
The -ticker could be compliant or in violation.
It was previously under the MPL 1.1, GPL 2.0, or LGPL 2.1.
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