The WTFPL (Do What the Fuck You Want to Public License) is an extremely permissive way of licensing intellectual property rights, most commonly used as a permissive free software license. It is essentially no different from dedication to the public domain.[2] The original Version 1.0 license, released March 2000,[3] was written by Banlu Kemiyatorn who used it for Window Maker artwork.[4] Sam Hocevar, a French programmer who was the Debian project leader from 17 April 2007 to 16 April 2008, wrote version 2.0.[5] It allows for redistribution and modification of the software under any terms—licensees are encouraged to "do what the fuck [they] want to". The license was approved as a GPL-compatible free software license by the Free Software Foundation.[1]
Terms
The text of the license[5]:
DO WHAT THE FUCK YOU WANT TO PUBLIC LICENSE Version 2, December 2004Copyright (C) 2004 Sam Hocevar <[email protected]>Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim or modifiedcopies of this license document, and changing it is allowed as longas the name is changed. DO WHAT THE FUCK YOU WANT TO PUBLIC LICENSE TERMS AND CONDITIONS FOR COPYING, DISTRIBUTION AND MODIFICATION 0. You just DO WHAT THE FUCK YOU WANT TO.
Uses
The WTFPL is rarely used, at least by name, but some software has been released under it. The license can also be applied to artwork and written material.[5] Freecode, an index of free software, includes a specific category for WTFPL software and artwork, containing 35 entries as of January 2013[update],[6] of which two are authored by Sam Hocevar, the author of version 2.0 of the license. Potlatch, the online editor of the OpenStreetMap project, is released under the WTFPL.[7] 762 Studios libsst and ZSTL are both released under the WTFPL v2.0.[8] More recently, 0bin, a client side encrypted pastebin, has been using it too.[9]
Daftar/Tabel -- Software Using WTFPL
- org.reflections, a Java runtime metadata analysis, in the spirit of Scannotations. [10]
- BackMaid, a small PHP CLI script to clean out old backup files. Can also be used to get stats on your backup files.[11]
- Bones, a minimalist HTML 5 Starter Theme for WordPress Developers.[12]
- Servus Theme Boilerplate, the theme template system for Servus (formerly Droplings), a DropBox sharing app for OSX.[13]
- Eclipse Dock Icons on Mac OS X, an Eclipse plugin to show the workspace name as an OS X icon badge.[14]
- iD, a web-based editor for OpenStreetMap.[15]
- MemEdit0x0, a GUI memory scanner and editing program written in C++ and Qt compatible with Linux, Windows, Mac OS X, and portable devices.[16]
- Minecraft PHP Client 2, a Pure-PHP implementation of the Minecraft protocol.[17]
- MCSDFDBSWADZDSBL, a Minecraft Classic Serve software.[18]
- The NERD Tree, a highly rated VIM script.
- PhpBB Recent Posts Widget, a tool for the popular PhpBB forum software. [19]
- jquery.inview, a jQuery plugin that adds a bindable 'inview' event for detecting when an element is scrolled into view. [20]
- Profound Grid, a responsive grid system for fixed and fluid layouts. Built in SCSS, it gives you flexibility and full control. Profound Grid uses negative margins to calculate columns so fluid layouts will look exactly the same in every browser. [21]
- yepnope, A Conditional Loader For Your Polyfills! [22]
- Fighting is Magic: /mlp/ edition, a modification (and soon to be complete rewrite) of the Mane6's canceled version by a group of anonymous users from 4chan's /mlp/ board. [23]
- Joydiv: a GUI controller javascript library for multi-touch browsers [24]
- Split#
See also
Notes
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