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Licensing on metanohi
#&summary What's up with all that stuff? #&
Previous opinion: <@eval 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/:
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.Reason
I got tired of software and culture 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.