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alastairpat on Sept 28, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: Sudoku Solver in 140 bytes

I like that the OSI raised the WTFPL licence at a 2009 Board Meeting. I feel the outcome, 'Reject', is a loss for open source software - I'd love to see a programme with LICENCE.TXT containing that.

sp332 on Sept 28, 2011 [–]

As snippyhollow pointed out above, the FSF recognizes it as a free license. http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#WTFPL It's even GPL compatible!

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