-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 I want to request that you add the WTFPL to your list of accepted free licenses. It turns out that there are a number of very vocal people protesting the global use of "public domain" which has historically been limited to colonizing nations and not allowed of the colonies. The notion of "commonwealth" only applies to the people who participate in the commons after all, and it's often conveniently omitted that certain people are barred from participating in the commons. These days we call them illegal immigrants. In fact, there are some who claim that the commonwealth does not apply to any nation of citizens who do not recognize the british monarch as their ruler!
Furthermore with copyright the way it is in the USA, someone can be barred from releasing their work into public domain until 70 years after they have died, or 120 years if they have allowed a corporation to use it. Granted if you don't die first, and never ever work with other people (a "corporation") then you can release it, but it does leave a bad taste on many people's mouths at the mere mention of "public domain" and "freedom" in the same sentence. A lot of people who wanted to do the hell away with licensing and be totally permissive, released under public domain, only to find that there are STILL people in the world who will go after others for using that stuff. It's vanishingly rare in respect to software, because immigrants only count as illegal if they're too poor to qualify for legality, and poor people don't have much in terms of time or computers. But it is something people Have Opinions about. One such person created what is called the WTFPL, (the "Do What The Fuck You Want To Public License") and it pretty much means what it says on the tin. http://www.wtfpl.net/about/ It's pretty much undeniably a free software license. You might want to rename it to the "Do What The Freedom You Want To Public License" or something to avoid offending people, which is allowed by the license, (albeit argued against by the author), but regardless it would be nice to be able to use it, for the odd times we want to publish a semi-trivial piece of Javascript without also stomping on the graves of all the injuns who were murdered by the commonwealth. Or something. If nothing else, the WTFPL has a lot simpler and less ambiguous wording than any other public domain license I've run across. Especially the CC0. The following is the full text of the WTFPL: DO WHAT THE FUCK YOU WANT TO PUBLIC LICENSE Version 2, December 2004 Copyright (C) 2004 Sam Hocevar <[email protected]> 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. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iF4EAREIAAYFAlVx48AACgkQ5PYGoQrH2lbIrgD/cF4BPW0RFH/2gRKmcoWWD+c5 pedsjNUqDYCJhYhAuXkA/3eaeB1UJHqP7k8NXQqGwfCCB2kvCbIYcmO57SCTc01K =2cr/ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
