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I stopped caring and made my software public domain. Incidentally, nothing really happens until you become popular.

• stephth 16y ago
  As far as I understand it, the problem with public domain is it's not a license, but a meaning, and this meaning varies between countries. A completely permissive license (if well written) could be more permissive than PD in some parts of the world, since it's specific.
• dkersten 16y ago
  I agree, though I dislike public domain simply because in some countries it isn't recognized and becomes completely unusable. For that reason, I prefer an unresitrictive license like BSD/MIT, or better yet, something like the WTFPL[1]. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WTFPL http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WTFPL
• billswift 16y ago
  With the way copyright has been mangled in the last 35 years, public domain may not be safe - I have seen several people commenting that there is no way, since the copyright changes in the late 1970s, to affirmatively put your work in the public domain. Because of that risk, the WTFPL - Do What The Fuck You Want To Public License, http://sam.zoy.org/wtfpl/ http://sam.zoy.org/wtfpl/ , or an equivalent, is safer for potential users. Note that on the page I linked, it is pointed out that some non-Anglosphere countries didn't have a public domain in the first place.
  • anonymoushn 16y ago
    I generally use WTFPL for this reason. I find that licenses which attempt to reproduce in forks of the host do not promote freedom.