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.
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.
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.
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.