The Do What The Darned Heck You Want To Public License [WTDHPL] - (How-To)

How-To

How To License Your Work With The Do What The Darned Heck You Want To Public License (WTDHPL)

To license your work with The Do What The Darned Heck You Want To Public License (WTDHPL), you need at a minimum provide a statement that the work is released under The Do What The Darned Heck You Want To Public License (WTDHPL) along with your other legal statements, and provide a copy of the license itself (or at least a reference to http://wtdhpl.info for downloading/viewing the license). Providing the plain-text license in a file called WTDHPL.txt or license.txt would be well-suited to computer software; printing the text of the license with your other printed materials might be more appropriate for a more physical work.

For example, you might provide in your documentation or "readme"-type document a copyright statement, a licensing statement, a disclaimer of warranty, and a statement of limitation of liability. Please refer to the examples labeled "Example Legal Text". (The example disclaimer of warranty and statement of limitation of liability are very similar to those used by the Free Software Foundation in the GNU GPL.) (FSF, 2017)

You might also choose to use one of the graphic logos available on the Logos page.

In addition to simply making a statement that your work is licensed with a free license, in this case The WTDHPL, you should then comply with your responsibilities to service that license. This consists of providing access to the things that you grant licensees the rights to.

If you don't provide licensees access to the building blocks that you have, and only provide a finished product, then declaring that your work is licensed under The WTDHPL or any other free license may be interesting, but practically fall short, because licensees may not be able to exercise their rights under the license to modify and improve the work and redistribute their modified changes, without those building blocks.

References

The GNU General Public License v3.0, Free Software Foundation, Inc., 2017. https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.html , accessed Thu., Dec 7, 2017.

Example Legal Text

Do What The Darned Heck You Want To Public License (WTDHPL)

Version 1, January, 2017

DO WHAT THE DARNED HECK YOU WANT TO PUBLIC LICENSE: TERMS AND CONDITIONS FOR COPYING, DISTRIBUTION, AND MODIFICATION:

0. DO WHAT THE DARNED HECK YOU WANT TO.

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