Would you mind dual licensing it under an OSI approved license?

[chanezon]

We're using your excellent library in containerd
We're in the process of donating containerd to CNCF

The WTFPL license seems to be an issue:-)
cncf/toc#32 (review)

Could you dual license it under an OSI approved license like MIT or Apache?
https://opensource.org/licenses/alphabetical

[BurntSushi]

Dupe of #136.

If I started this project over, I would have chosen Unlicense/MIT, but I can't unilaterally relicense at this point, since it requires approval from all contributors.

If people want to use this library, then they need to convince their legal department that it's OK.

[chanezon]

Understood, thank you for the quick response.

[chanezon]

Do you mind if I maintain a fork under a different license? It seems to be one of the conveniences of the WTFPL https://github.com/chanezon/toml#about-this-fork, and that would allow us to continue using your lib.

[BurntSushi]

I think as long as there's a pointer back to the original work somewhere in the repo to note that it's a relicensed fork, then I wouldn't mind at all! It sounds like you may need to convince your cohorts though. :-)

[chanezon]

Thank you, yes I have the first section of the README explain why the fork and pointing back to the original project. Now let's see if I can convince the Linux Foundation:-)