New license question regarding libcaca

Matthias Saou thias at spam.spam.spam.spam.spam.spam.spam.egg.and.spam.freshrpms.net
Mon Aug 6 08:15:46 UTC 2007


Hi,

Libaca is licensed under the "DO WHAT THE F**K YOU WANT TO PUBLIC
LICENSE". Here is the full text (it's so short) :

            DO WHAT THE F**K YOU WANT TO PUBLIC LICENSE
                    Version 2, December 2004

 Copyright (C) 2004 Sam Hocevar
  22 rue de Plaisance, 75014 Paris, France
 Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim or modified
 copies of this license document, and changing it is allowed as long
 as the name is changed.

            DO WHAT THE F**K YOU WANT TO PUBLIC LICENSE
   TERMS AND CONDITIONS FOR COPYING, DISTRIBUTION AND MODIFICATION

  0. You just DO WHAT THE F**K YOU WANT TO.

Permanent link : http://sam.zoy.org/wtfpl/COPYING

It's pretty much Public Domain with the obligation of changing the name
for redistribution. What should I do regarding the license field of the
package? Do we need to add a new "WTFPL" possible entry? :-) The
libcaca sources also come with copies of the GPLv2 and LGPLv2, but
those aren't referenced anywhere in the source code, except the
autotools part.

Matthias

PS: The original License text doesn't have the "**".

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