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by nrzuk 4219 days ago
While it looks really nice, there is no way I could submit/deploy a project with that kind of licence bundled in the source code.

Guess you could just change the name etc but that's not really the point!

If one of the corporate legal team picked up on this there would probably be a small shit storm following!

            DO WHAT THE FUCK YOU WANT TO PUBLIC LICENSE
                    Version 2, December 2004

  Copyright (C) 2004 Sam Hocevar <sam@hocevar.net>

  Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim or modified
 copies of this license document, and changing it is allowed as long
 as 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.
1 comments
josho 4218 days ago
If that really is the only barrier to using this then I'm sure a simple email to the sole copyright holder asking for an MIT/BSD/etc license to the code would solve your problem.

The author put together what looks like a nice library, let's not make an issue out of something so trivial to solve.

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