The Do What The Fuck You Want To But It's Not My Fault Public License (WTFNMFPL or WTFNMFPLv1) is a variation on the Do What The Fuck You Want Public License (WTFPL) by Sam Hocevar. Essentially it is the same as the WTFPL, except with an additional clause to indemnify the author, creator, developer or distributor against anything a third party might do or encounter with or as a result of whatever's being licensed with it.
This license was first published at Organised Adversary in October, 2013.
The license is free to use by anyone as per the terms of itself.
Now includes a Python script to generate the license files with a correct copyright field for the user/developer to set for themselves. The script takes two parameters: the year to start the copyright from and the name. If including an email address with the name then that must be in quotation marks to prevent the shell trying to pipe the command into itself:
wtfnmfgen.py 2015 Danger Mouse
or:
wtfnmfgen.py 2015 "Danger Mouse <dm@superspy.example.net>"
The first command would produce:
Copyright (C) Danger Mouse, 2015-2016 Copyright (C) 2015-2016 Danger Mouse Copyright © Danger Mouse, 2015-2016 Copyright © 2015-2016 Danger Mouse
While the second command would produce:
Copyright (C) Danger Mouse <dm@superspy.example.net>, 2015-2016 Copyright (C) 2015-2016 Danger Mouse <dm@superspy.example.net> Copyright © Danger Mouse <dm@superspy.example.net>, 2015-2016 Copyright © 2015-2016 Danger Mouse <dm@superspy.example.net>
Either option should be fine, it's up to the end user's preference as to which file(s) to keep and which to delete. The output of the script is always eight files; four versions of the license file and four versions of the boilerplate to add to code or anything else.
- Why did you include a copyright notice with the license text instead of making it public domain?
I am in Australia, everything I write is automatically under copyright whether it is labelled or not.
Furthermore, public domain means different things in different jurisdictions and the (usually American) assumption that making something public domain makes it more free or more permissive and thus more usable is actually false in many places. By retaining copyright and releasing the license under the terms of itself I actually achieve what you want rather than play to what you incorrectly think is true.