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

site/about/index.org

@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 #+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
+In general, text, images, code and any other type of work on metanohi are
-[[http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/][Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0]] license, a *copyleft*
+available under the [[http://www.wtfpl.net/][Do What The Fuck You Want To Public License (WTFPL)]]; read
-license. There may be cases with other licenses. The status of a page can be
+about this choice [[/writings/non-copylefted][here]].  There may be cases with other licenses.  The status of
-seen in the bottom in a metadata box. If no license is specified in the box,
+a page can be seen in the bottom in a metadata box.  If no license is specified
-it's either because someone forgot to apply one to the page, or it's because
+in the box, it's either because I forgot to apply one to the page, or it's
-the page has almost no content (like the "Page not found" page) and does not
+because the page has almost no content (like the "Page not found" page) and does
-really require a license.
+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
+If you use something from metanohi, please attribute Niels G. W. Serup and
-license, you are required to attribute Niels G. W. Serup and metanohi. When
+metanohi (unless it's not by Niels, which is rare).  When doing that, write
-doing that, write something like "Niels G. W. Serup, [[http://metanohi.name/][metanohi.name]]".
+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.
 
 ** Source
 

site/about/javascript.org

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 #+title: JavaScript License Information
 #+summary: A table of the JavaScript used on metanohi
-#+license: cc0
+#+license: wtfpl
 
 * JavaScript License Information
 

site/about/links.org

@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 #+title: Links
 #+summary: Various links.
-#+license: cc0
+#+license: wtfpl
+#+startup: showall
 
 #++show
 #+BEGIN_SRC javascript
@@ -14,7 +15,7 @@
 
 * Hyperlinks
 
-My first web pages from ~2004 contained pages whose only purpose was to show
+My first web pages from ca. 2004 contained pages whose only purpose was to show
 links to other sites, because that's what you use websites for. With this page I
 intend to carry on with this tradition.
 
@@ -66,5 +67,4 @@ Beware, for the following Hyperlinks contain Knowledge!
 
 
 [fn:oxymoron] "Passive activism" is an oxymoron. Activism is, of course, not a
-  passive thing. But having links stowed on the front of one's web page
+  passive thing.  But links stowed on a web page certainly is.
-  certainly is.

site/about/niels.org

@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 #+title: About Niels
 #+summary: A short description of metanohi's creator
-#+license: bysa
+#+license: wtfpl
+#+startup: showall
 #&toc
 
 * About Niels
@@ -172,9 +173,12 @@ EOTFhRXYSWReVaHWxduolu5YplmQHYj1LtGm4p6659ymKr80tzWAg3LK7AzDXRQ+
 
 ** Photo
 
-#&img;url=img/niels-eyes.png, width=600, center, caption=Niels
+#&img;url=img/niels-eyes.png, width=600, center, caption=Niels (kind of)
 
 
 ** Misc.
 
 #&img;url=img/fsfmember.png, medlink=http://www.fsf.org/associate/support_freedom/join_fsf?referrer=8085
+
+(I'm not currently a member due to my student economy, but I might become a
+member again later on.)

site/index.org

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
-#+title: Home
+#+title: Beginning
 #+summary: This is the start page.
-#+license: cc0
+#+license: wtfpl
 
 
 * Meta-meta-meta-meta-meta-metanohi!
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ If you're not the type who crawls through the entirety of a website when you
 visit it, here's the author's pick of metanohi pages you should read:
 
 + <@eval macros.titlelink('/writings/atem')@>
-+ <@eval macros.titlelink('/writings/software-licenses')@>
++ <@eval macros.titlelink('/writings/non-copylefted')@>
 + [[http://suum.metanohi.name/][SUUM]]
 + <@eval macros.titlelink('/projects/sleinlib')@>
 + <@eval macros.titlelink('/projects/magicng')@>

site/projects/hbcht/index.org

@@ -2,8 +2,8 @@
 #&summary
 An esoteric programming language with compiler/interpreter
 #&
-#+license: bysa, text
+#+license: wtfpl
-#+license: agpl 3+, program
+#+startup: showall
 #&toc
 
 * Half-Broken Car in Heavy Traffic
@@ -107,9 +107,7 @@ output as a text string instead of a list of numbers.
 
 ** Download
 
-hbcht is released under the AGPLv3+.
+hbcht is released under the WTFPL.  [[hbcht-0.1.0.tar.gz][Download]].
-
-[[hbcht-0.1.0.tar.gz][Download]].
 
 hbcht can also be found in the [[http://pypi.python.org/pypi/hbcht][Python Package Index]]. hbcht has its code at
 Gitorious; see [[http://gitorious.org/hbcht]].

site/writings/bash-prompt.org

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-#+title: My BASH prompt
+#+title: My BASH prompt (outdated)
 #&summary
 What my prompt used to do and what it looked like.
 #&

site/writings/freesoftware.org

@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 #+title: Free software
 #+summary: An explanation of the necessity of free software
-#+license: bysa
+#+startup: showall
+#+license: cc0
 
 * Free software
 

site/writings/non-copylefted.org

@@ -0,0 +1,84 @@
+#+title: My works, non-copylefted
+#&summary
+Why I don't use copyleft for my own works.
+#&
+#+startup: showall
+#+license: wtfpl
+
+A few months ago, I went from using the GPL for most of my software to BSD3;
+read about it [[/writings/software-licenses][here]].  I chose to continue to use Creative Commons
+Attribution-ShareAlike for most of my non-software works.
+
+Now, I have chosen to stop copylefting my original works entirely.
+
+I do this not because of a change in my general view of copyleft, but because I
+don't see myself ever using the legal benefits of copyleft; I can still
+understand why someone would choose to use copyleft to challenge copyright,
+fighting fire with fire, but it's just not something I would do.
+
+The power of copyright lies in whether people accept the terms that an author
+puts forth, and that, if the copyright is abused, the author uses the law to
+punish the abusers.  The same is essentially true for copyleft.  So, if I
+release a work under e.g. Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike, and someone
+derives a new work from that and does not copyleft that, I have the power to
+make them change that decision; I could contact them and try to convince them to
+be nice and free their work; I could contact them and say they *must* free the
+work because of the law; and I could even /sue/ them for not freeing their work!
+
+Until now I have, without really realizing it, used copyleft licenses only for
+the signal they send: If you create something new from something I have made
+free, please make your work free as well.  I never thought about what would
+happen and what I would do if someone broke the law and didn't follow my
+copyleft.  I probably should have thought about that at the beginning, but hey,
+I just wanted to make my works freely available and modifiable and hope that
+others would do the same!
+
+While I don't think it is wrong to use even lawsuits for upholding copyleft,
+it's not something I would /ever/ do.  If someone takes a copylefted work and
+abuses it, the community does not lose works; it simply does not gain them.
+Arguing against this argument would be the same as asserting that Hollywood
+loses money when people do not pay for digital, made-at-no-cost copies of their
+films -- a view I certainly don't agree with.
+
+Of course, I might never have to enter a lawsuit to uphold copyleft.  Maybe just
+asking the abuser would be enough in all cases.  But since this very page is
+public, the abuser would realize that I don't intend to sue in any case, so they
+might just ignore my request.  And I don't intend to manipulate people into
+making them think I would sue them.
+
+It's not my impression that there has been a lot of court cases involving
+copyleft; most of the license violations seem to be handled without the need for
+lawsuits, though I guess both lawyers and the threat of lawsuits are still quite
+used.  The FSF's [[https://www.fsf.org/licensing/compliance][Compliance Lab]] gives a good impression of the potential
+difficulty of fixing license violations.  I don't mind this compliance fixing,
+but in principle I am a bit against spending time making evil people relicense
+works when time could be spent making good people create new, free works.  In
+the long run, this will surely result in more good, free works, though forcing
+someone evil to relicence might be practical in the short run.
+
+In essence: Copyright is so hopelessly broken, and personally I'm not going to
+fight copyright with itself.  This is because I'm not going to depend its and
+copyleft's legal benefits, and that is because I would only depend on something
+broken if I found it /very/ necessary and not just useful in the short run.  I
+just want to share my works freely, and if someone who uses my works don't want
+to do that, I'll simply ignore them.  My walking away from copyleft makes my
+works usable by more people.
+
+#&img;url=/img/licenses/wtfpl.png,float=right
+So, from now on I'll use the [[http://www.wtfpl.net/][Do What The Fuck You Want To Public License (WTFPL)]]
+for all my original works, software and culture alike.  I don't think that the
+"fuck" in the license is a problem.  I also thought about using Creative Commons
+Zero, but even though [[http://wiki.creativecommons.org/CC0_FAQ][it can be used for software]], [[http://opensource.org/licenses/index.html][OSI has not approved it]]
+because of [[http://projects.opensource.org/pipermail/license-review/2012-February/thread.html][a patent clause]] ([[https://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#CC0][FSF has approved it]], and it's also DFSG-free), so it
+might be unpractical.  WTFPL has been approved by the FSF.  [[http://opensource.org/minutes20090304][OSI rejected it]], but
+that's because they didn't consider it a license and not because they disagreed
+with any of the (1) clauses in the WTFPL, so I don't think using the WTFPL will
+pose any practical problems.  I'll still contribute to copyleft works, though I
+might mention this URL.
+
+I was a bit inspired by [[http://blog.ninapaley.com/2013/01/18/ahimsa-sita-sings-the-blues-now-cc-0-public-domain/][Nina Paley's change to CC 0 from CC BY-SA]].  I think her
+story is scary.
+
+My first copylefted program to be un-copylefted is the generator for this
+website which used to be under the AGPL.  I'll relicense the rest of my works on
+a need-to-basis (there are so many, and I have other stuff to do).

site/writings/software-licenses.org

@@ -1,10 +1,16 @@
-#+title: My choices of software licenses
+#+title: My choices of software licenses (outdated)
 #&summary
-Which licenses do I use, and why?
+Which licenses did I use, and why?
 #&
 #+startup: showall
 #+license: bysa
 
+#&+classes=warning
+This is an old opinion of mine, but its arguments still hold if one assumes that
+copyleft is very important.  See <@eval
+macros.titlelink('/writings/non-copylefted')@> for my updated opinion.
+#&
+
 * My choices of software licenses
 
 I like strong copyleft, the stuff found in the GNU General Public License, the