diff --git a/site/about/index.org b/site/about/index.org index 1de4599..f00cf2b 100644 --- a/site/about/index.org +++ b/site/about/index.org @@ -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 diff --git a/site/index.org b/site/index.org index 89fd676..fa99359 100644 --- a/site/index.org +++ b/site/index.org @@ -24,9 +24,10 @@ visit it (why not?), here's the author's pick of metanohi pages you should read: * 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] diff --git a/site/writings/licensing.org b/site/writings/licensing.org new file mode 100644 index 0000000..c7ea044 --- /dev/null +++ b/site/writings/licensing.org @@ -0,0 +1,50 @@ +#+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 + + 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. diff --git a/site/writings/non-copylefted.org b/site/writings/non-copylefted.org index db774e8..ef84517 100644 --- a/site/writings/non-copylefted.org +++ b/site/writings/non-copylefted.org @@ -5,6 +5,12 @@ Why I don't use copyleft for my own works. #+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;