Timeline for Should I change the name of the WTFPL?
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| Feb 9, 2014 at 18:31 | comment | added | Domenic | Well, OK, I got un-lazy and followed some links: caca.zoy.org/browser/libcaca/trunk/COPYING lolengine.net/browser/trunk/COPYING bitbucket.org/drbb/monkeysay/src/… hmm. Given how different this is from normal license practices in my communities I am less comfortable with the WTFPL now. | |
| Feb 9, 2014 at 18:27 | comment | added | Domenic | I would feel more comfortable with this answer if there were some example packages that use this style, e.g. one of the ones referenced by "Every major Linux distribution (Debian, Fedora, Arch, Gentoo, etc.) ships software licensed under the WTFPL, version 1 or 2" | |
| Feb 9, 2014 at 18:18 | comment | added | Ishmaeel | Yes, and the first recommendation in the WTFPL site is exactly that. He just calls the file "COPYING" instead of "LICENSE". | |
| Feb 7, 2014 at 21:16 | comment | added | Domenic | It's convention to include a LICENSE or LICENSE.txt file with the package in my circles. | |
| Feb 7, 2014 at 19:35 | history | edited | Ishmaeel | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Feb 7, 2014 at 19:18 | history | edited | Ishmaeel | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Feb 7, 2014 at 19:16 | comment | added | Ishmaeel | Well, those licenses do not seem to have copyright notices attached to their text (does not mean they are not copyrighted themselves) I'd say just refer to the license as shown in the FAQ page (instead of pasting it verbatim into your code) and you'll be fine. | |
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| Feb 7, 2014 at 18:58 | comment | added | Domenic | What I find weird about this is that it contravenes common practice for other licenses like MIT or BSD. See e.g. github.com/gruntjs/grunt/blob/master/LICENSE-MIT#L1 and github.com/npm/npm-install-checks/blob/master/LICENSE#L1 | |
| Feb 7, 2014 at 18:56 | history | answered | Ishmaeel | CC BY-SA 3.0 |