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Do What The Fuck You Want Public License

This is the ultimate publice license for your work

http://www.wtfpl.net/

🌧️ miragearchitect

2023-10-23 · 10 months ago · 👍 gemalaya, Minko_Ikana

6 Comments ↓

😺 gemalaya · 2023-10-23 at 14:55:

Great license, one of the very few licenses where you don't have to read the license's manifest to know what it stands for. And google doesn't like it apparently, one more reason to use it:

"Google does not allow its employees to contribute to projects under public domain equivalent licenses like the WTFPL .."

👻 mediocregopher [...] · 2023-10-23 at 17:13:

Google won't even display the documentation for WTFPL golang projects on their pkg.go.dev service, which is the defacto documentation service for the language. You have to fallback to using alternatives like godocs.io

🚀 mrkubax10 · 2023-10-23 at 19:05:

They don't want to list projects with such license because of language used? Otherwise it doesn't make sense.

☕️ mozz · 2023-10-24 at 01:48:

Another one of my favorites - the Fuck Around and Find Out License - https://sr.ht/~boringcactus/fafol/

🌧️ miragearchitect [OP] · 2023-10-24 at 05:05:

What's with this discrimination against the license...

🚀 stack · 2023-10-24 at 17:26:

Personally I appreciate the clear intent of this 'license', but I've been advised by IP lawyers that public domain does not exist in many countries. In addition, the foul language is likely to put off the courts from taking it seriously. I try to keep expletives where they belong, as comments and an occasional identifier.