According to Shane, attribution cannot be waived by a licence in most European countries, so WTFPL would probably not be much more valid than a Public Domain licence.
What do we do? Should we perhaps just allow attributionless use explicitly on the page and not bother with any particular licence?
best, /Stian
-------- Forwarded Message -------- From: Shane Martin Coughlan coughlan@fsfeurope.org Reply-to: coughlan@fsfeurope.org To: Stian Rødven Eide stian@fsfeurope.org Cc: team team@fsfeurope.org Subject: Re: Using WTFPL as licence for PDFreaders graphics Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2009 17:54:42 +0000
Stian Rødven Eide wrote:
We wish to license the buttons on pdfreaders.org under a licence that doesn't require attribution of any sort. Since Creative Commons' Public Domain licence may not be valid outside the US, it was suggested that we use the WTFPL (Do What The Fuck You Want To Public License). Does anyone have any objections to or comments on this? The licence is available at http://sam.zoy.org/wtfpl/
You cannot remove authorship in most European countries, so attribution cannot be removed by a licence.
I suggest using a very permissive licence with a simply grant (like two clause BSD). However, attribution is likely to be required.
Shane