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[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shared_source
May I recommend replacing The Unlicense with CC0? ( https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode ). It has all the same bullet points except is a bit tighter in countries where a public domain release is not legally valid. Unfortunately it is more difficult to release works into the public domain than The Unlicense addresses. The Unlicense is likely sufficient for all foreseen cases in countries except…
No WTFPL? I'm disappointed.
It's listed in https://choosealicense.com/appendix/ The point of the home page is to make it easy to choose a license, not to list every possible choice. (I occasionally help maintain https://github.com/github/choosealicense.com which is the source for the site.)
No WTFPL? I'm disappointed.
Fun fact: at least one large company I worked with explicitly internally documented WTFPL-licensed software as unable to be merged into their codebase, because lawyers. Cf. MIT/BSD/Apache/ISC/CC-BY/CC0 that were all fine.
Why not turn this around and default to GPL as "nice and simple"? The introduce the "I don't care about sharing improvements" option for BSD style licenses?
Have you looked at the text of either of these licenses? (Or the MIT license? The linked page mentions the MIT license, but never any BSD license.) If you take a brief glance at both texts, the question immediately answers itself.
No WTFPL? I'm disappointed.
Fun fact: at least one large company I worked with explicitly internally documented WTFPL-licensed software as unable to be merged into their codebase, because lawyers. Cf. MIT/BSD/Apache/ISC/CC-BY/CC0 that were all fine.
[0]: http://edwards.dk/thesis.pdf (p. 120, 231)
May I recommend replacing The Unlicense with CC0? ( https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode ). It has all the same bullet points except is a bit tighter in countries where a public domain release is not legally valid. Unfortunately it is more difficult to release works into the public domain than The Unlicense addresses. The Unlicense is likely sufficient for all foreseen cases in countries except…
The Unlicense sometimes causes issues with software being accepted into larger collections. CC0 is much more thoroughly drafted, and more widely accepted.