[steder]

I am not a lawyer but like the new no evil license clause Doug Crawford put on various packages this I'm not sure that "do what the fuck you want" is particularly meaningful in a legal context. You know people have been saying "don't roll your own crypto" lately?

Don't write your own license.

Don't write your own contracts.

Don't write your own legal documents.

There are plenty of solid, well written and unambiguous licenses out there that one can use to offer your users the same freedoms without the WTF.

[JoshTriplett]

> I am not a lawyer but like the new no evil license clause Doug Crawford put on various packages

That clause is a massive pain, particularly for Linux distributions. It makes the license no longer Open Source. Please do not propagate that license or clause any further.

[mikegerwitz]

I was skeptical of this as well; I had the FSF licensing team confirm that the WTFPL is a free software license a month or two ago. You can see it here:

https://gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#WTFPL

From Joshua Gay:

> Our interpretation of this license is that it is > intended to allow you to do whatever you want with the > work. Therefore, we assume that this includes using, > copying, modifying, and distributing modifications for any > purpose.

He was, however, cautious to say "I can not conjecture how a court would interpret that phrase" and recommended to consult a lawyer.

[rakoo]

It's a sad world we live in if the rights you give for a software work are opt-in (you may do this and that) and not opt-out (you may not do this and that)