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Re:On Open Source, licenses and changes by antoncohen on Monday July 13, 2020 @02:06PM (#23823677)
WTFPL is amusing, but it is flawed as a license. It doesn't have the legal language required to safely grant rights.

https://opensource.google/docs/thirdparty/licenses/#wtfpl-no...

Unlicense[1] and CC0[2] have better legal wording.

[1] https://unlicense.org/

[2] https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/

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Re:On Open Source, licenses and changes by beefhash on Monday July 13, 2020 @02:33PM (#23823997)
Legal types don't like the Unlicense either as far as I can tell[1].

You'll find software that is dual licensed CC-0 and something else, too,[2,3] because anything public-domain-ish with no attribution may be perceived as too risky.

[1] https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/a/147120

[2] https://github.com/BLAKE3-team/BLAKE3/blob/master/LICENSE

[3] https://github.com/LoupVaillant/Monocypher/blob/master/LICEN...

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