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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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* 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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I think the license is fun, and there really is no good reason to use anything
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else for most of my small, one-off projects. For larger projects, I use BSD2 or
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BSD3 or whatever -- I accept all free software licenses and really do not wish
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to discuss them that much (although I admit that I have previously been more
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opionated).
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* Some reasons
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I got tired of software and culture licenses. I don't mind them, and I don't
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have anything against copyleft -- it's a tool, and it can be effective in some
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cases -- but for my own projects, I just want to publish something that people
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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 people might not want to integrate WTFPL code into their project, but fuck
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them (okay, in practice I'll probably just relicense to BSD2 or BSD3 if
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necessary).
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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 own junk.
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* Copyright in general
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I'm not a fan of copyright as it is right now, but I don't know if it should be
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removed alltogether (if that was even possible...). I think it would be nice if
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copyright was only for commercial use.
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* Previously
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I used to have a lot of text about this, but I've come to just not care. It's
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all in the git history if you want to dig it up and read it.
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