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Actually it isn't at all: WTFPL only gives you license to the license, not to the actual code. Read it carefully.
by dpe82 11y ago
Actually it isn't at all: WTFPL only gives you license to the license, not to the actual code. Read it carefully.
- TheDong 11y agoUnless you are a lawyer or have heard it from a lawyer, you should not claim (unqualified) what a license does or does not cover. The last clause, I think, sounds like it is meant to cover the work in question (the code). I am not asserting this is true, but lawyers have accepted this as being true. For example, the free software foundation (which has lawyers more skilled in copyright law than most places) accepts this as a free license.
- dpe82 11y agoI heard it from a couple lawyers (both ours and theirs) when our company was acquired and we had to do a license audit of all of our open source dependencies. It was enough of a problem that we had to remove a couple (fortunately small) WTFPL projects.