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There are many other licenses that are similarly permissive, but that lawyers actually have vetted.

If you ever want interesting commercial adoption of software, you need to make sure the associated ip / software licenses are solid

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Well, the FSF has approved the WTFPL as compatible with the GPL. [1] Certainly that doesn't mean it's been as vetted as the other licenses, but it counts for something IMO.

[1] - http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#WTFPL

You could always just dual license. ;)

Exactly. I think of legalese as a computer language. Publishing your software globally means that your license document will be run through many sepatate jurisdictions. Each jurisdiction is akin to a unique runtime interpreter.

I prefer to stick with idiomatic legalese to avoid running into interpreter specific bugs :-)

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