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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