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@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ This is metanohi, the personal website of [[./niels][Niels G. W. Serup]].
In general, text, images, code and any other type of work on metanohi are
available under the [[http://www.wtfpl.net/][Do What The Fuck You Want To Public License (WTFPL)]]; read
about this choice [[/writings/non-copylefted][here]]. There may be cases with other licenses. The status of
about this choice [[/writings/licensing][here]] There may be cases with other licenses. The status of
a page can be seen in the bottom in a metadata box. If no license is specified
in the box, it's either because I forgot to apply one to the page, or it's
because the page has almost no content (like the "Page not found" page) and does

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* Important note
This website is very broken. However, you probably won't notice it. Just keep
in mind that the code running this site is unmaintained and poor; see for
yourself at <@eval macros.titlelink('/projects/mege')@>.
This website is very broken (though its structural design is pretty ok).
However, you probably won't notice it. Just keep in mind that the code running
this site is unmaintained and poor; see for yourself at <@eval
macros.titlelink('/projects/mege')@>.
[fn:evenmore] Not just a lot, but A LOT[fn:alot]

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

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#+startup: showall
#+license: wtfpl
#&+classes=warning
This old opinion is somewhat verbose and, well, old. See <@eval
macros.titlelink('/writings/licensing')@> for my current opinion. Why do I
keep changing opinions? Ugh...
#&
* My works, non-copylefted
A few months ago, I went from using the GPL for most of my software to BSD3;