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by another-dave 271 days ago
I can't remember what the package was, but when I was working for "large bank", one of the npm dependencies we wanted to use had a licence file that just said 'Do whatever the fuck you want'.

Legal came back saying that it was "highly unorthodox, but approved for use"

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That’s amazing. I’d really like to steal that, but not being a lawyer, I’m not sure how viable it is as an actual license.
FSF has approved it, OSI has not. Make of that what you will. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WTFPL

Notes from OSI rejection board meeting

> It's no different from dedication to the public domain.

-- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WTFPL#cite_note-osi-2