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recommendation, Mr. Michlmayr notes that public domain doesn't exist in Europe. Recommend: Reject. Mr. Michlmayr did not agree with the reasons cited for possible rejection of the WFTPL license since public domain doesn't exist in Europe. Mr. Michlmayr moved that we reject the WFTPL as redundant to the Fair
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There are at least two not very serious licenses which have essentially the same meaning as public domain. I'm talking about the
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do What The Fuck you want to Public
License Version 1.0, March 2000 Copyright (C) 2000 Banlu Kemiyatorn (]d). 136 Nives 7 Jangwattana 14 Laksi Bangkok Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies of this license document, but changing it is not allowed. Ok, the purpose of this license
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It's even clearer that the Do What the Fuck You Want To Public
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the following licenses to be discussed and approved/disapproved by the Board. WTFPL Submission: Comments: It's no different from dedication to the public domain. Author has submitted license approval request -- author is free to make public domain dedication. Although he agrees with the
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The WTFPL is a parody of the GPL, which has a similar copyright header and list of permissions to modify (i.e. none), see for instance gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.en.html. The purpose of the WTFPL wording is to give more freedom than the GPL
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