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Why not? It is basically a public domain license, it just uses more colorful language. IANAL, but I see no problem using such code in corporate environment. What are the risks?

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It's very unclear how it works around the world in different legal systems. In comparison the CC0 spends a lot of words to work with all the jurisdictions where you can't legally give up all rights over a work.

If you are operating internationally (like nearly the entire tech industry), complying in as many jurisdictions as possible is very valuable

YANAL, and IANAL, but those who are, are always suspicious of modified license texts. They always fear there's a hidden catch that the language (colourful or not) tries to hide and get you tricked. And they are not entirely unjustified to do so.

Also, in a corporate environment, there's typically some additional overhead cost and bureaucracy and approvals that a new license text brings in, even when the engineers and lawyers manage to agree everything is OK.

I don't think there's a problem. The situation I experienced is just that standard OSI licenses are preapproved. Anything else needs to go via manual process which takes days/weeks. So even if you say "do whatever you want", it's not a standard OSI license which means I have to get a confirmation first. And if I can find/write an alternative quicker, I will.

Which is a problem.

WTFPL lacks a disclaimer of the implied warrant of merchantability. If you're the author of such code, you could be sued for damages if there is a bug in it.

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