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Attribution 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
by sverige 10y ago
Attribution 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.