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FS#46715 - [licenses] Consider adding the WTFPL

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Earnestly (Earnest) - Wednesday, 14 October 2015, 14:42 GMT
Last edited by Doug Newgard (Scimmia) - Saturday, 17 October 2015, 13:48 GMT
Task Type Feature Request
Category Packages: Core
Status Closed
Assigned To No-one
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Consider adding the WTFPL to the common set of licenses along with ISC, MIT, etc.
This task depends upon

Closed by  Doug Newgard (Scimmia)
Saturday, 17 October 2015, 13:48 GMT
Reason for closing:  Won't implement
Comment by Doug Newgard (Scimmia) - Wednesday, 14 October 2015, 21:35 GMT
What packages need this?
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Arch_packaging_standards#Licenses
Comment by Earnestly (Earnest) - Friday, 16 October 2015, 22:01 GMT
licenses, as the title hopefully indicates. Currently licenses=(custom:WTFPL) is needed to satisfy namcap.
Comment by Doug Newgard (Scimmia) - Saturday, 17 October 2015, 05:31 GMT
You missed the point. The "licenses" package is for common license, defined as those needed for two or more packages in the official repos. See the link I posted.
Comment by Earnestly (Earnest) - Saturday, 17 October 2015, 10:08 GMT
Ah, nevermind actually. I didn't realise WTFPL had attribution like MIT

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