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Changed my license opinion once again, now in favour of WTFPL.

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#+title: About metanohi
#+summary: A short description of what metanohi is
#+license: bysa
#+license: wtfpl
#+startup: showall
#&toc
* About metanohi
@@ -22,19 +23,19 @@ widget on the propaganda page, might cease to work).
** Copying
In general, text, images, and other media on metanohi is licensed under the
[[http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/][Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0]] license, a *copyleft*
license. 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 someone 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 not
really require a license.
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
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
not really require a license.
#+caption: Free cultural works
#&img;url=/img/licenses/freecontent.png, float=right
Most of metanohi's content can be defined as free cultural works, as defined by
[[http://freedomdefined.org/][freedomdefined.org]].
[[http://freedomdefined.org/][freedomdefined.org]]. Most of it is also [[http://copyfree.org/][copyfree]].
In all cases, you are free to redistribute content from metanohi, but please
don't set up a mirror for no reason (who would do that, anyway?).
@@ -42,19 +43,10 @@ don't set up a mirror for no reason (who would do that, anyway?).
External content is sometimes a different matter. [[./media-licenses][A list of licenses for media]]
is used for attributing in cases where it is impractical to attribute in-page.
If you take something from metanohi that is not under a public-domain-like
license, you are required to attribute Niels G. W. Serup and metanohi. When
doing that, write something like "Niels G. W. Serup, [[http://metanohi.name/][metanohi.name]]".
If you use something from metanohi, please attribute Niels G. W. Serup and
metanohi (unless it's not by Niels, which is rare). When doing that, write
something like "Niels G. W. Serup, [[http://metanohi.name/][metanohi.name]]".
A few pages, like [[/projects/][this one]], have a lot of Python code for in-page evaluation
and execution. This might not be the most secure thing to allow, but since only
one person can change it, it is deemed safe enough. Any such nontrivial code is
licensed under the same license as [[/projects/mege/][mege]], i.e. AGPLv3+, unless otherwise
noted. This might seem like overkill in some situations, but with only one
license in use, simplicity is achieved.
Note that the CC BY-SA license is used by default, which is why even pages with
no more than two lines bear that license.
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