Uh, just don’t mistake it for a license. It’s funny and I like to put my stuff under WTFPL. But in recent times I feel it’s appropriate to point out that you sometimes don’t do your users a favor by being silly (if it’s useful code.)
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I thought the main problem was that it’s debatable whether you can enforce it. So it harms users and distributions because they can’t really rely on it.
But the liability would definitely be another issue. I think the law is different here in Europe, so the liability might already be included for my hobby tinkering per default and I don’t need to worry.
And something else is: I’d include trademark… force people to choose a different name for their project if they take my code so there is no confusion and people can’t upload versions with advertisements on some software store.
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Uh, just don’t mistake it for a license. It’s funny and I like to put my stuff under WTFPL. But in recent times I feel it’s appropriate to point out that you sometimes don’t do your users a favor by being silly (if it’s useful code.)
Also isn’t the problem with the WTFPL that it doesn’t have a liability clause?
i.e. something like this:
I thought the main problem was that it’s debatable whether you can enforce it. So it harms users and distributions because they can’t really rely on it.
But the liability would definitely be another issue. I think the law is different here in Europe, so the liability might already be included for my hobby tinkering per default and I don’t need to worry.
And something else is: I’d include trademark… force people to choose a different name for their project if they take my code so there is no confusion and people can’t upload versions with advertisements on some software store.