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Obscure software license
| My personal favourite is WTFPL, especially useful in personal projects when all I want is working with codes.
| http://dbad-license.org/
| Just a heads-up to all gurls who think about using these licenses: don't. They're joke licenses, nothing more. Use a proper, FSF approved license. Employers don't like WTFPL & Co. in the slightest. Be informed about software licensing and mind the freedom of all software users!
| >>333201 well if you're under contract/employed it's better to use a license that's actually been tested legally in the first place.
| As for them only being jokes, I'd argue that they are indeed valid licenses, though considering most of the licenses like this are quite permissive it's unlikely you'd ever have a reason to find out in court
| >>333496
This. These licenses are fine for personal projects, but for anything else I'd throw in MIT or CC0 for permissiveness.
| >>333505
Consider the GPL licenses for maximum freedom for your next projects. Too much permissiveness could lead to peoples freedoms being denied! See the situation with Sony and FreeBSD.
| GPL V3 and/or CC0, for any project.
| >>333618 at least one free bsd Dev is fine with it and says Sony ends up merging larger changes anyway because it's easier to maintain that way
| >>334227
>muh collaboration
Doesn't matter. Point is, with the BSD/MIT/X11/ISC licenses there's risk of others making your stuff proprietary and denying users freedoms.
| >>334350 true, I didn't really argue against that, just that in some cases it's not that big of a deal, it also depends what you want to do, if you want your software used all over the place by companys like Sony then a more permissive license could work better as companys generally like being able to do whatever they want.
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| I have a soft spot for strange or funny software licenses, post your favorite!
(Also if anyone has a big list of them I would love a link)