New license question regarding libcaca
Paul Howarth
paul at city-fan.org
Mon Aug 6 08:35:05 UTC 2007
Matthias Saou wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Libaca is licensed under the "DO WHAT THE F**K YOU WANT TO PUBLIC
> LICENSE". Here is the full text (it's so short) :
>
> DO WHAT THE F**K YOU WANT TO PUBLIC LICENSE
> Version 2, December 2004
>
> Copyright (C) 2004 Sam Hocevar
> 22 rue de Plaisance, 75014 Paris, France
> Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim or modified
> copies of this license document, and changing it is allowed as long
> as the name is changed.
>
> DO WHAT THE F**K YOU WANT TO PUBLIC LICENSE
> TERMS AND CONDITIONS FOR COPYING, DISTRIBUTION AND MODIFICATION
>
> 0. You just DO WHAT THE F**K YOU WANT TO.
>
> Permanent link : http://sam.zoy.org/wtfpl/COPYING
>
> It's pretty much Public Domain with the obligation of changing the name
> for redistribution.
The name-changing obligation seems to refer to the license document
itself and not the covered works by my reading of that paragraph.
Paul.
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