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WTFPL copyright notice and source header #46

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achilleas-k opened this issue Oct 27, 2015 · 1 comment
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WTFPL copyright notice and source header #46

achilleas-k opened this issue Oct 27, 2015 · 1 comment

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I believe that the copyright notice on the WTFPL, which in the original reads "Copyright (C) 2004 Sam Hocevar sam@hocevar.net" should not be replaced by the copyright holder of the software. Lice currently replaces the year and name in that line. I'm not sure about this though. I think that is the copyright notice for the text of the license itself.

The FAQ on wtfpl.net explains, for this section of the license file:
"These are the rules for the license; they mean Sam Hocevar wrote the license, and you can modify it if you want, you just cannot call your version the WTFPL."

Also, if I'm reading the first question on that same FAQ correctly, the following can be used for source file headers, which lice currently doesn't include for the WTFPL.

Copyright © 2000 Your Name <your@address>
This work is free. You can redistribute it and/or modify it under the
terms of the Do What The Fuck You Want To Public License, Version 2,
as published by Sam Hocevar. See the COPYING file for more details.
ejmr pushed a commit that referenced this issue Oct 27, 2015
[Fix] Correct the template for the WTFPL
b2b40bc 
Our template for WTFPL inserts variables into the template,
specifcially for the year and organization.  However, the text for the
WTFPL should be included verbatim without any variables.  For that
license the year and organization refers directly to the author of the
WTFPL itself, and so we should not change that.  This patch removes
the variables from our WTFPL template so that lice will generate the
license with the proper information.

Signed-off-by: Eric James Michael Ritz <ejmr@plutono.com>

GitHub-Issue: #46
See-Also: http://www.wtfpl.net/faq/
@ejmr ejmr closed this as completed in 7464d9b Oct 27, 2015
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ejmr commented Oct 27, 2015

Thank you for the bug report and info we needed to correct.

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