Licensing

Man, this whole licensing thing is bullshit. Copyright law wasn't even originally supposed to apply to everyone, only to professionals.

But it seems like every piece of shit has some license, even if they're "free", that forces you to provide copies of their license.

And then YOU have to license your own shit and put your real name on it even if you never intended to publish your real name.

What ever happened to amateurs who don't make money off software not having to deal with this shit?

WTFPL. Thread over.

And then YOU have to license your own shit and put your real name on it even if you never intended to publish your real name.
I do?

>>1 doesn't know about AN^ON_IX and the ^{ANON_IX GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE}

You don't "have to" supply a license just to post code and have other amateurs use it.  If you're not using ridiculous GPL shit, you don't have to do anything other than mark out which parts of your code are stolen from others and include a copy of their terms.

The problem is, a professional still can't use code without knowing where it came from and being able to show that he has a right to use it; a license.  If you want to not be a dick about your published code, you should give him one.  Nothing has changed.

both license types have unacceptable obnoxious clauses (such as reproducing a huge disclaimer that is written in all caps) that severely restrain our freedoms
Seriously, wtf.

>>1,3,5-
see >>2,4

>>1
as long as these amateurs take precautions cover their footsteps, nothing happens to them. this is true of pretty much anything in life really.

But if there's no disclaimer of warranty or limitation of liability, however unlikely, someone's gonna sue your pants off.

It's sad when all the copies of licenses and terms are longer than the actual thing you are trying use.

>>10
If it's shorter than the license maybe it would be faster to write it yourself.

>>11
If it's shorter, it's likely to be already OPTIMIZED.

>>2

>>1
PROTIP: When the FSF refer to free software, they refer users' freedom to run, copy, distribute, study, change and improve the software.

GNU Hello World:

/*
 * <one line to give the program's name and a brief idea of what it does.>
 *    Copyright (C) <year>  <name of author>
 *
 *    This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
 *    it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
 *    the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
 *    (at your option) any later version.
 *
 *    This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
 *    but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
 *    MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
 *    GNU General Public License for more details.
 *
 *    You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
 *    along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>;.
 */

main()
  {
    printf("Hello World!\n");
  }