Propsing ruby gems & foul language in license...

[Pierre-Yves Chibon]

On Mon, 2011-09-12 at 09:22 -0400, Darryl L. Pierce wrote:
> Someone pointed out an interesting Ruby gem [1] to me recently that I
> thought about packaging for Fedora. The gem has a dependency tree that
> includes several other gems that aren't in Fedora as well [2], so I'd
> love it if a few people could pitch in to help out with maintaining (or
> co-maintaining with me) the additional packages.
> 
> One of them, mg, has as its license the following (censored):
> 
> Written by [Ryan Tomayko](http://tomayko.com/about), extracted
> by [Simon Rozet](http://atonie.org).
> 
>                DO WHAT THE F*** YOU WANT TO PUBLIC LICENSE
>                        Version 2, December 2004
> 
> With similar text to follow. Basically the developer licensed it as
> totally free, but the language is less than desirable.
> 
> Is this going to block the package from being added if propose? 

This license is part of the
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing#Software_License_List and is
acceptable for inclusion in Fedora:
Do What The F*ck You Want To Public License WTFPL Yes Yes Yes
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing/WTFPL

Pierre