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MIT and all other BSDish licenses require attribution. There's an understandable wish by some people to just radically reduce the complexity of this whole topi
by hannob 10y ago
MIT and all other BSDish licenses require attribution.
There's an understandable wish by some people to just radically reduce the complexity of this whole topic. I don't want to have to say "You can use this for whatever, you just have to ...", even if "..." just means "you have to keep this line with the copyright info". I simply want to be able to say "you can use this for whatever you want, no restrictions".
- sverige 10y agoAttribution does prevent the case where someone else takes your code, relicenses it under their name with a different license, and effectively locks you out of the house you built. (I know, it's hard to believe anyone would be so dishonest and petty, isn't it? That's where the complexity comes from.)
- khedoros1 10y agoI'd mostly be worried about that case if they, afterwards, decided to sue me for copyright infringement of my own code. I expect that that could be a difficult situation to explain in court. "Yes, your honor, I wrote the software, gave it away for free, and said that someone else could take credit." It just sounds weird, and I think it'd be a somewhat foreign concept for most people. If I'm putting my stuff out on WTFPL, it basically implies that I'm already OK with someone taking it, relicensing it, and distributing it under a new license (and even under a new attribution). Personally, I would have a problem with it, so I've never licensed anything under WTFPL.