2014-08-02 10:21:59 +02:00
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#+title: Licensing on metanohi
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#&summary
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What's up with all that stuff?
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#&
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#+startup: showall
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#+license: wtfpl
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2014-08-02 10:23:54 +02:00
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Previous opinion: <@macros.titlelink('/writings/non-copylefted')@>.
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2014-08-02 10:21:59 +02:00
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* Licensing on metanohi
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I usually just use the Do What The Fuck You Want To Public License, Version 2
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from [[http://wtfpl.net/]]:
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#+BEGIN_SRC
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DO WHAT THE FUCK YOU WANT TO PUBLIC LICENSE
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Version 2, December 2004
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Copyright (C) 2004 Sam Hocevar <sam@hocevar.net>
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Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim or modified
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copies of this license document, and changing it is allowed as long
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as the name is changed.
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DO WHAT THE FUCK YOU WANT TO PUBLIC LICENSE
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TERMS AND CONDITIONS FOR COPYING, DISTRIBUTION AND MODIFICATION
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0. You just DO WHAT THE FUCK YOU WANT TO.
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#+END_SRC
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* Reason
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I got tired of software licenses. I don't mind them, and I don't have anything
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against copyleft -- it's a tool, and it can be effective in some cases -- but
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for my own projects, I just want to publish something that people can use.
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I still ask for attribution, but I do it in a nice way, and not with the
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implicit threat of a license. If someone doesn't attribute me, it makes no
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difference to me whether they have to because of a license; I'm not going to do
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anything about it anyway.
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I guess that some people consider e.g. CC BY-SA a recognizable symbol and that
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its law stuff is secondary. I can follow that thought, but I just got tired of
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it.
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Some might not want to integrate WTFPL code into their project, but fuck them.
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All that being said, I will work in any free software and free culture project
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no matter what license they use. WTFPL is just for my junk.
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