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My own license is a more family-friendly variant of the WTFPL: http://www.johntait.org/webhelp-mobile/WYLPL.html http://www.johntait.org/webhelp-mobile/WYLPL.ht

My own license is a more family-friendly variant of the WTFPL: http://www.johntait.org/webhelp-mobile/WYLPL.html http://www.johntait.org/webhelp-mobile/WYLPL.html

ExpiredLink 11y ago
Everyone should write their own license. This will increase freedom and democracy.
- opcvx 11y ago
  How will specifically writing your own license increase freedom and democracy?? What everyone should do is choose a license.
  - huxley 11y ago
    The parent's comment is dripping with sarcasm
    - Mithaldu 11y ago
      Sarcasm is a highly inefficient mode of communication and should be avoided as much as possible.
      - nileshtrivedi 11y ago
        It's inefficient if your assumptions about the audience are wrong. If you know your audience, sarcasm is highly effective, high-density mode of communication.
        Mithaldu 11y ago
        Got it, only with close friends and family.
        ExpiredLink 11y ago
        Only with intelligent people.
      - brazzlemobile 11y ago
        So should off topic pontificating.
- a3n 11y ago
  "This license is a symbol of my individuality, and my belief in personal freedom."
pygy_ 11y ago
See also: https://github.com/pygy/The-Romantic-WTF-Public-License https://github.com/pygy/The-Romantic-WTF-Public-License
DannyBee 11y ago
No offense, but this is a really bad license. A. The other licenses include very explicit copyright grants. Copyright is a bundle of rights. Literally. The other licenses are explicitly mentioning what copyright rights you get and what you can do with them. You aren't. This opens the world up to fun arguments over what "Do whatever you like meant", with one side arguing that "no, i didn't mean the right to publicly perform" and the other side arguing it does. It may seem like this would never happen, but trust me when i tell you this is what will happen (and in fact, it has actually happened out of court) :) Unlike BSD/etc, it also makes things like "the scope of any implied patent grant" super unclear. Without specifying exactly what the user can do with it, it's unclear what patent rights they are going to get with it. 2. It has no warranty disclaimer. In the US, you are opening up anyone who uses this license and produces commercial software to implied warranty claims. They happen. Without a disclaimer, you will lose. I could go on. WTFPL is actually one of the few licenses the companies I work for ban, because it is so bad for people in practice. I would love to live in a utopia where nobody should have to worry about these things and i could forget about the open source lawyer side of my life (and i spent a lot of my life trying to help get us there). But we aren't there, and acting like we are isn't going to help anyone, and doesn't advance any cause, either. So, please, don't create new licenses, and if you are, take the time to understand why people have written existing licenses the way they have.

My own license is a more family-friendly variant of the WTFPL: http://www.johntait.org/webhelp-mobile/WYLPL.html http://www.johntait.org/webhelp-mobile/WYLPL.html

ExpiredLink 11y ago

Everyone should write their own license. This will increase freedom and democracy.

opcvx 11y ago
How will specifically writing your own license increase freedom and democracy?? What everyone should do is choose a license.
- huxley 11y ago
  The parent's comment is dripping with sarcasm
  - Mithaldu 11y ago
    Sarcasm is a highly inefficient mode of communication and should be avoided as much as possible.
    - nileshtrivedi 11y ago
      It's inefficient if your assumptions about the audience are wrong. If you know your audience, sarcasm is highly effective, high-density mode of communication.
      - Mithaldu 11y ago
        Got it, only with close friends and family.
        ExpiredLink 11y ago
        Only with intelligent people.
    - brazzlemobile 11y ago
      So should off topic pontificating.
a3n 11y ago
"This license is a symbol of my individuality, and my belief in personal freedom."

pygy_ 11y ago

See also: https://github.com/pygy/The-Romantic-WTF-Public-License https://github.com/pygy/The-Romantic-WTF-Public-License

DannyBee 11y ago

No offense, but this is a really bad license. A. The other licenses include very explicit copyright grants. Copyright is a bundle of rights. Literally. The other licenses are explicitly mentioning what copyright rights you get and what you can do with them. You aren't. This opens the world up to fun arguments over what "Do whatever you like meant", with one side arguing that "no, i didn't mean the right to publicly perform" and the other side arguing it does. It may seem like this would never happen, but trust me when i tell you this is what will happen (and in fact, it has actually happened out of court) :) Unlike BSD/etc, it also makes things like "the scope of any implied patent grant" super unclear. Without specifying exactly what the user can do with it, it's unclear what patent rights they are going to get with it. 2. It has no warranty disclaimer. In the US, you are opening up anyone who uses this license and produces commercial software to implied warranty claims. They happen. Without a disclaimer, you will lose. I could go on. WTFPL is actually one of the few licenses the companies I work for ban, because it is so bad for people in practice. I would love to live in a utopia where nobody should have to worry about these things and i could forget about the open source lawyer side of my life (and i spent a lot of my life trying to help get us there). But we aren't there, and acting like we are isn't going to help anyone, and doesn't advance any cause, either. So, please, don't create new licenses, and if you are, take the time to understand why people have written existing licenses the way they have.