Comments on: Feedback

By: Jossel

Jossel — Tue, 22 Jul 2014 11:07:08 +0000

Can i download your work, claim is mine and then sue you for “stealing my work”?
if not then i can’t do what the fuck i want to

By: Beastie

Beastie — Tue, 15 Jul 2014 21:41:29 +0000

Sam, your link to the ‘BSD’ (supposed FreeBSD) license on this page is outdated and non-specific as to which ‘BSD’ (your text) license you are linking to.
http://www.wtfpl.net/about/
http://www.freebsd.org/copyright/license.html

The above link is to the old ‘4-clause’ BSD license, with a note regarding removal of the advertising clause below.

The current license, most particularly for all new code, is now the ‘2-clause’ BSD license.
http://www.freebsd.org/copyright/freebsd-license.html

You may find all the various names for older ‘BSD’ licenses at the fsf and foss license compendium sites.

Please update your links and text. Thanks.

By: arsene

arsene — Sun, 29 Jun 2014 13:54:10 +0000

I was arguing this idea to a few people for the past few days without knowing of this. I don’t know how some people can call something free if the license includes restrictions. That’s the opposite of free.

Anyway, great that someone agrees. I’ll use it without the exclusive copyright line which sort of goes against the spirit of ‘do what you want’. I hope to see a version 3 or something that ignores exclusive copyright of anything, including the license document. You actually explicitly recognise the right of anyone to copy the license so using the (C) symbol is sort of confusing and misleading. Also I like to not brand anything I say with others’ names.
I can always just write a similar message with my works but since this is already a recognised (:popular) license it would be nice to use it.

Ciao

By: Random Kid

Random Kid — Thu, 26 Jun 2014 21:45:58 +0000

I just have to say that this is fucking epic license xD

By: Le Concombre Masqué

Le Concombre Masqué — Mon, 23 Jun 2014 15:36:27 +0000

Is this license case aware? In other word, may I create a modified version and call it “Do What The Fuck You Want To Public License” (notice the capitalized T in “To”)

By: Jake

Jake — Thu, 15 May 2014 15:06:37 +0000

Fantastic idea, I will be using this on all my fun/gimmick sites… Don’t change the name!

By: swine

swine — Sat, 10 May 2014 15:00:58 +0000

“They cannot “copyright it”; that’s exactly why the WTFPL is not the public domain. Even if they copyrighted a derived work, they wouldn’t be allowed to sue the copyright holders of the original work.”

This would probably be useful if it was covered in FAQ. Great license otherwise, exactly what I was looking for for years now.

By: David Eldridge

David Eldridge — Thu, 03 Apr 2014 17:34:27 +0000

@Andreas maybe you could ask for permission to rename the license for your own use. :)
I love the license, not the name. I think I will change it to serve my own purposes to something more like this:

Copyright (C) <2014>

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the “Software”), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED “AS IS”, WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.

Then, I think I will call it the MIT license.

By: Shane Heyns

Shane Heyns — Thu, 20 Mar 2014 13:41:01 +0000

I rate this was the best license ever thought of and i believe it holds the true meaning of freedom and honestly if people are offended by it and disagree with it in anyway you have the freedom of choice so dont use it but me i always use it thanks for the great work Sam Hocevar.

By: tim

tim — Fri, 07 Mar 2014 18:02:32 +0000

Hi there, splendid license.

I have a question about using the WTFPL. On your FAQ-page (http://www.wtfpl.net/faq/) it says to include the following text in the source code if I want a no warranty clause:

/* This program is free software. It comes without any warranty, to
* the extent permitted by applicable law. You can redistribute it
* and/or modify it under the terms of the Do What The Fuck You Want
* To Public License, Version 2, as published by Sam Hocevar. See
* http://www.wtfpl.net/ for more details. */

My question is whether after inlucding this text I still must follow step one and two from the “How do I use the WTFPL?”-section of the FAQ page.