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Discussion on: Using React or Gatsby? Let me show you the error of your ways 😱🍿! Introducing the ultimate motherf***ing website !

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GrahamTheDev

To be brutally honest, although I knew it was a joke license I did not know that it would actually be problematic in the real world (first time using it after seeing it a few times and it making me chuckle!)

Super interesting, I should perhaps add a line at the bottom with a proper license! Thanks for the top tip, it highlights that my licensing knowledge is lacking!

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Sergey Ponomarev

If you are looking for then the only one license that doesn’t have issues is 0BSD:

  • It’s used by Google for Android part (Toybox) while the WTFPL is blocked.
  • The BSD licenses are well known for corporate lawyers and they’ll be fine with it.
  • It doesn’t mention the problematic Public Domain but it’s effectively it’s equivalent.
  • It’s popular and used even more often WTFPL.
  • It’s very short and doesn’t have many versions.
  • It’s old and used since 2006

Just use the one the same license to avoid fragmentation and confusing.